Mental Bedrest Transition

My night nurse came in here last night to chat and she started saying that I would have a challenging time transitioning mentally from bedrest to moving around again in the next couple of weeks. I don't know if this is specific to hospital bedrest, but I had no problems with this transition when I did strict bedrest at home for 11 weeks with my 2nd baby.

Anybody have any insight or experience with this? What will the mental challenges be: expecting too much too soon? feeling too tired? or will I be ecstatic?

 

Well......I dont know what the transition will be...maybe my legs will say :crazy: What the hell !!!!!!!!!!!
Or maybe I will get too estatic, jump out of bed :yahoo: ......and of course fall flat on face :vava:
But let me know how your transition goes.

How is your day going so far???

 

Are you going to be discharged and/or allowed to get up and move around more since you've reached a better gestation? If so, I think what she probably means is that you will still feel like you "need" to be on bedrest for the babies. I never got to the point where I could be up and around more, but I imagine I would have felt that same way.

 

I haven't been through the getting off bedrest before, but I hope it goes smoothly for you! It certainly makes sense to have a transition, but I can also see that you'd just be so excited to be up again and have your babies. Are they talking about letting you walk around a little more closer to delivery?

 

At 34 weeks (next week), I'm s'posed to get up more. . . I get up already for bathroom trips and quick showers every other day. They say they will start getting me up to walk to the ice machine, sit up in my hospital chair some, and ride around the hospital in a wheelchair, yippee. (I also sit up to eat for about 15 minutes at meals now.)

Personally, if I get that far, I really would want to get to 35 weeks, so I can see where I'm mentally going to make myself stay down in the bed longer. I will not be discharged because I have precipitous labor historically. . . fine with me as I'd be scared to go home in my condition with such a myterious cervix. . . if it still exists!!! (They think my as soon as they clipped my cerclage, that'd be all she wrote! Who knows!? If I haven't delivered by 36 weeks, July 2nd is my definitive labor day. They predict I will go sooner though.)

 

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Well......I dont know what the transition will be...maybe my legs will say What the hell !!!!!!!!!!!
Or maybe I will get too estatic, jump out of bed ......and of course fall flat on face
But let me know how your transition goes.

How is your day going so far???


Monica, you made me laugh!

Today has been good in that blah sort of way. . . I think you bedresters know what I mean!

How are y'all doing? I've been posting lots lately trying to keep myself and y'all a little entertained. . . I want to hear about y'all too instead of just myself!