Bed Rest...

Well at my appointment today my midwife Chery decided it was time for me to stop working. My legs have been getting more and more swollen, I keep getting headaches, and every time I go to the Doctors office my blood pressure is high. She thinks it's best for me to just stay home and relax until the baby gets here because high blood pressure is bad for not only me, but it can be very bad for the baby to. She instructed me to try and lay down as much as possible on my sides, not to go to work, or do things around the house, or go out shopping or running errands to much. That is going to be VERY hard for me. When I am at home I feel like I need to be getting things done, cleaning, organizing, running errands, etc, all the things she is telling me not to do. I also really don't like asking for help, from Nick, or from anyone, and I think if I want my house to be in some kind of order and at least kinda clean, I am going to HAVE to ask for help. Financially this is going to be very difficult also, we are going to have to make some cut backs somewhere because we didn't really have these extra weeks off work budgeted.

On the up side, I will really get a lot of rest, which I know will be something of the past once the baby gets here, so I should enjoy it while I can. Also a lot of my work clothes were getting very uncomfortable, so I was either wearing uncomfortable clothes all day, or wearing things I probably shouldn't be wearing to work. At least now I can just wear sweatpants all day! Nick seems farly calm about the whole thing, unfortunately when I stopped by his work to tell him he was already frustrated with their new computer system, so he was not in the best mood, but he took it pretty well, and just no when he got home from work he seems to be in a good mood. That is a relief because I was worried about how he would take it. He worries a lot about financial things, and so do I, but I try not to focus on them like he sometimes does. I'm hoping he just realizes that this is something we can't control, that it is best for the baby, and if we end up needing financial help that we have a lot of friends and family that will be there for us, and so far it looks like he does realize that.