New to bedrest..

Hi everyone,
I am new to bedrest as of a couple days ago d/t high bp, and other pre-e symptoms. I am 31 wks with twin boys and a 3 yr old daughter. I was on bedrest with DD but this was d/t preterm labour at 24wks and spent the reminder of my pregnancy in the hospital, this time its totally different. I have been having some anxiety issues and just wondering if anyone has advice on this. I am not an anxious person by nature, but now I feel like I could rip my face off I feel so restless, I feel like I am always on the verge of losing it. I am finding hard to have patience with my 3yr old and just life in general, and of course sleep is a long gone thing. Anyway just wondering if anyone else has dealt or dealing with this, I realize bedrest is the best for my boys right now but I am not sure I can this without totally losing it.

 

I wish I had advice, but I really don't. I went through the same thing and I have a 4 year old. I was so short with him. I just put him in front of a lot of cartoons, and spent a lot of time on the internet looking up things about twins. It will be over before you know it!

 

Honestly, the first week is the worst. It'll get better I promise. I just got off about 10 weeks of bedrest and now my twins are coming up on 38 weeks, so it's all worth it in the end!

 

With my other pregnancies I went on bedrest at 24 weeks (with Abby) and 30 weeks (with Bella) and was able to hold off delivery with Abby almost 10 weeks and 2 weeks with Bella. Its a pain, but each day they spend inside of you is one day they won't have in the NICU/Hospital.

Good Luck!

 

Right there with you... on bedrest since last week. I have a 3 year old son who is BORED and I am going CRAZY!!!!

 

I did bedrest with the twins for 13 weeks with a lot of anxiety. (I also did 11 weeks with a singleton pregnancy). Both times I had kids at home, and I was on the strict-don't-get-out-of-bed for anything but the potty kind. I had to send my toddler off to stay with my mom during the week 1.5 hours away with the first bedrest I did. It was depressing, but in the end I knew the rewards would outweigh the immediate pain we were enduring. Then this twin time, I had to have help at home. . . My kids were free to come in and out of my room, but I mentally had to divorce myself from meeting their needs or whines. That became someone else's job (I'm a SAHM), and that made it easier. . . if it can be easier, haha.

Do you have someone there helping you tend to your child? That might help.
And you have to accept that preg hormones are probably swirling around too. I felt those majorly while I was in the hospital for 7 weeks.

Bedrest is hard physically, but it is a mega-mental battle. I found that mindgames helped me face down the anxiety as well as a big dose of humor. I also accepted that there were going to be some pretty intolerable days. There will be good and bad days. My mother reminded me of that, and my nurses did too. On my worst days, when I just cried and felt overwhelmingly crabby from the anxiety, I pointblank told the nurses and people around me that I was having a rough day. . . it took the edge off. They understood.

Also, my faith in God helped me more than anything else. He tells us not to worry in the Bible, but it's hard not to. He says to cast your cares upon Him and He will take care of us. It's hard prying my fingers off that anxiety and praying, " Lord, take this from me!" But I tried, and there were days I felt He blessed me with immense peace and perserverance. It is tough.

One day, bedrest will end, and you will be elated!