The oddest part of being on hospitalized bedrest is the realization that life goes on…for everyone except me.<\/p>\n
People get up and go to work and come home and make dinner and watch the World Series and update Facebook with the goings on of their day.<\/p>\n
I lie in bed and try to occupy the time between every-four-hour vitals and daily nonstress tests and couple time a week sonograms. I call the nurse to let her know how much I voided. I call room service for a meal and sit up in bed for one hour afterwards to avoid heartburn before lowering the head of the bed to keep my blood pressure lower. <\/p>\n
My day is wrapped around baby’s health and my own. <\/p>\n
Baby’s still kicking. Biophysical profile is good. Heart rate is great. No contractions. Baby’s doing fine.<\/p>\n
My health is harder to assess and more tenuous. Is this headache a sign of disease progression or is it my normal morning sinus headache prolonged because I’m not getting up to clear my head? I’m struggling to breathe – how far do I press the residents to do something about it when my O2 saturations are staying okay? I’m retaining tons of fluid – the doctors haven’t recommended anything but the nurse suggested restricting my fluids a bit to try to stave off some of it. Should I follow her advice? My blood pressure fluctuates, never quite high enough to need an oral antihypertensive – but high enough to make me worry.<\/p>\n
People ask me what they can do to help and I have no idea what to tell them. I know what I’d be doing at home if everything were fine and I was getting prepared for my expected home delivery – but my life is on hold now and I have no idea how to carry on. <\/p>\n
Do I need preemie clothing? Will I need to be prepared to take baby home right after we deliver? Or will there be weeks in the NICU before that happens? How important is it that my dishes be done, that the nursery be prepared, that the freezer has meals in it? I don’t know. <\/p>\n
I can only think for the present day, because everything could change in an instant. <\/p>\n
And I open Facebook and see all the kids in their new Halloween costumes and pregnant mommas wearing clever little mom and baby costumes – and I am baffled that life goes on…for everyone except me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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