Bedrest Weeks #8 and #9

I forgot to do my post last week about my eighth week of bedrest, so I figured I would just double up and do a post on both weeks.  Has it really been 9 weeks already?  It's actually gone by quicker than I thought it would.  Only 2 more to go (actually 11 days, but who's counting :))   I'm getting sooo close.  I just feel like these last 2 weeks are going to drag.

Like I said in a previous post, I've had lots of visitors in the last few weeks.  About 3 weeks ago, our friends, Matt and Kara, came over on a Sunday morning and brought Babe's for lunch.  Yum!  They have 2 little boys, Hudson and Luke, and Em had a blast playing with them.  It's not often that she has little boys over to play with.  Then a week ago, Kevin and Julie and my nieces, brought dinner over again on a Friday night.  Em loves having Lauren and Nattie over and they play so well together that us adults actually get time to visit without having to constantly watch the kids.  Then last week, my friends/co-workers, Carrie and Martha Ann, stopped by during lunch one day.  They brought me a couple fun surprises.  Martha Ann got some cute clothes and a Tx. Tech hat for Evan and several of my co-workers went in on a gift card for a traveling day spa.  Everyone had signed a card and it was so sweet!  Reading all the sweet comments almost made me cry (I'm preggo, what can I say).  It's so great knowing how many people are thinking about us and pulling for Evan to hang out until it's time.  I was so excited about the traveling day spa (something I didn't even know existed) that I called the next day to try and make an appt.  They had an opening on Thursday over lunch, so I snatched it up.  It was a super nice treat to spend my lunch hour on Thursday getting a mani and pedi at my own house.  :)  Assuming Evan hangs out for at least a couple more weeks, I may have them come back 1 more time to touch up my nails.  Being able to get my nails done actually made me feel like my life was "normal" for a little bit.

I had another dr. appt. today.  It was just for an NST.  I did everything I could to help ensure no contractions showed up.  I think I drank about 42 ounces of water this morning.  Well, apparently that wasn't enough to keep the contractions away.  :(  I still had a ton show up.  I only felt the 1 big one, but that didn't mean anything.  My heart pretty much sank as I saw all the hills on the strip.  The last thing I wanted was to be sent over to L&D for a 5th time.  Luckily though my dr. spared me a trip.  Based on the exam, my cervix hadn't changed since Monday.  I was still just 1 cm dilated and 75% effaced.  As she said, the farther along I get, the less worried they are about the contractions, as long as they aren't causing changes.  Plus, she thought the terb shot obviously wasn't working as well as we thought since only a few days after getting it, the contractions were back.  So she sent me back home on bed rest and just said to call or go to the hospital if I feel more than 4 contractions an hour.  Right now I'm only feeling 1 every couple of hours.  I'll go back on Monday for more monitoring and probably 1 other time next week.  Then on Tuesday, May 22nd (11 days from now) , I will be officially off bed rest and the contraction medicine!!  She said I will have no restrictions and can go back to work too.  I never thought I would be so excited about being able to go back to work!!  I'll be 36 weeks at that point and they won't do anything to stop labor.  I'm a bit nervous how it will go once I'm off bed rest and the contraction medicine.  I know it will take time just to regain my strength and stamina.  But I think I'm going to feel like a ticking time bomb from that day on.  I just hate not knowing what to expect.  But we shall see soon enough.