Pregnancy Story part 6: Not doing a whole lot. Literally.

I figured since I haven't done one of these in a while it would be a good idea to do one now. after getting the cerclage I was sent home on bed rest for a week and then I had to go back to get a CL (cervical length) check and they would determine from there where the bed rest would go. Well, the week of bed rest went by pretty fast. When friday came around Jav took me to my appointment so that I had some support. We got in the room and they did the sonogram, and they said that my cervix was back down to a 1.2. She said that she also thought that I was contracting so I was sent over to the hospital to be monitored. I, of course started freaking out again and Jav was trying to calm me down. I got put into a triage room and they hooked me up to a contraction and heart monitor. Luckily Jess was there that day so she was our nurse again. Dr. Miller was the Doctor that was attending that night and he came in and started talking about how we are almost to 24 weeks, but at 24 weeks that does not mean we will get to take a baby home that is just the gestation they try to save them. He said that ideally they wanted me to make it to 28 weeks, but even then there are complications. He started talking about doing a second cerclage and left Jav and I to talk about it. Jav and I decided that we would not want to do a second cerclage (at this point I didnt know all I do now about Incompetent Cervix or else I would have definitely said go ahead on a second) After two hours of monitoring, which I only had two contractions that they think were caused by the sonogram (all my CL checks were internal sonograms) I was sent home on bed rest until further notice. I wont bore you with the details of 16 weeks of bed rest. I will tell you that I spent 95% of my time on line and the other 5% reading, playing DS, watching movies, sleeping, or sneaking out for car rides. A couple of times I had Jav take me to my work cause I missed the kids. I would always leave there a mess. Crying and everything. I missed them so much. Much much more than I thought I would. I never realized how attached I got to them. There were lots of tests in between, I had to re-take the 3 hour glucose test (the birth center made me take it early cause I was overweight)I had to do a 24 hour urine catch cause of high blood pressure.I had to do an echocardiogram? to make sure my heart rate was fine. It had been high at a few of my doc appointments, but I am pretty sure lots of laying around with no activity had something to do with that. As we neared the end, my amniotic fluid was too high so they started making me do twice weekly Non-Stress Tests (NST's). I guess because high amniotic fluid was a sign of gestational diabetes and my glucose numbers coming back a bit on the high side (the never outright said that I had GD they said I had Glucose Intolerence in pregnancy) they made me start doing the NST's and they were going to schedule me for a diet class. This took them months to do. Finally in the beginning in May they got me set up for it. I was scheduled to take it May 26th at 3 pm. This would be my last day as a pregnant woman.
This was around 28 weeks. Bedrest is NOT glamour! lol