[Poasplus] How am I gonna make it through the next three weeks?

[Kelley Jarrett]

Hi Girls! wow. i continue to get very sporatic emails from you guys but i'm
pretty sure i'm missing a lot!  anyway - congrats, Kathryn, on how far along
you are! i know you have to be excited!

I am on bedrest.  i went in at 32 weeks and was already 70% effaced!  Doc
was nervous, so i was monitored in the hospital then put on strict bedrest.
i will say it totally SUCKS but it's worth it! the worst part is that i
can't do anything to get ready for the baby to come so i have to rely on DH
for all that :) it would be nice to do it my own way!

Angel - how's your pregnancy going?  Jen, can't wait for you to be too!

Kel


On 9/28/06, Kathryn Tewson <kathrynt at nwlink.com> wrote:
>
> My due date is in two weeks, but my doctor is encouraging me not to think
> of
> the 13th as a "magic day" but rather the 20th, because that's when the
> answer to the question "Can we not DO something about this?" becomes "Yes,
> let's talk about options."
>
> I am really getting miserable. The heartburn is terrible, I'm in horrible
> pain all the time, I can barely move. I'm not sleeping well, and I have a
> stuffy nose, no idea if it's a cold or just pregnancy rhinitis. Every time
> I
> stay still for more than about 45 minutes, my hips lock up, and then
> moving
> is a ridiculously hurty challenge. The top of my uterus is a full eight
> inches higher than the bottom of my rib cage, and she is all the way up in
> it, too -- I felt her kick me in the sternum this morning -- so I can
> barely
> breathe. Bending over even a little bit is a complete no-op, which means
> no
> laundry, no dishwashing, no putting the sheets on the bed in the nursery,
> no
> nothing.
>
> My feet are so badly swollen right now -- an hour after I got up -- that
> I'm
> seriously wondering if the skin on them is going to split. I tried
> abstaining from caffeine yesterday (one mug of tea, not a quad mocha or
> anything) to help it, and now I have swollen feet AND a caffeine
> withdrawal
> headache. If I sit with my feet up for too long, the pressure on my low
> back
> and my pelvis gets unbearable. Over-hydration and salt abstention is
> probably the only answer, but between the hips and the feet I can't stand
> up
> long enough to cook my own food, and everything pre-prepared has about a
> year's worth of your RDA of sodium in it.
>
> It could be so, so much worse. I don't have PUPPS (shudder), I don't have
> GD, I don't have pre-e. I carried this baby to term, and she is big and
> robust and healthy. This is misery, but it's petty first-world misery,
> frankly. And I know when the little girl gets herself born and I get to
> meet
> her that it will all be worth it a thousand times over; I just feel ground
> down and tired and in pain right now.
>
> If you made it this far, you probably deserve a medal.  Thanks for
> listening
> to me whine.
>
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