The Belly Beans (Bryson and Sawyer)

Here is a funny picture of my boys “taking care of business”.  Sometimes when nature calls, you just can’t wait!

Thankfully, this time we were able to push the “pause button” on the nature call and temporarily stave off the arrival of belly bean #2. 

Ultimately, I had to spend 2 nights in the hospital flat on my back with continuous monitoring and getting tocolytics (meds to make the uterus chill out) and steroid injections to stop this little episode of pre-term labor.  That seems to have done the trick, and the contractions have calmed down a good bit.  Hopefully that will be the last bit of drama we will have until it is closer to the time for him/her to get here!

Now are are home, and even if I am “grounded” to my bedroom, at least it’s my home!  I am set up in jail, ahem bed, with my lap top, cell-phone and huge surgery textbook (for some light reading).  I should have no excuse for not being productive!  It’s a lot harder to stay in bed than I thought it would be though.  Bryson is just dying for my attention and wants me to come see everything that he is doing.  Plus there is so much to do around the house to get ready.  There is nothing like a bout of pre-term labor to kick you into high gear for the impending arrival.  Yep- I wasn’t just getting fat these past 8 months…we really are having a baby- soon!

Of course, the goal right now is NO BABY for another 2 weeks (until I am at least 36 weeks).  So the discharge rules were for bed-rest for a week, then “light duty” for a week…   <long pause>  yeah right, light duty for a surgery resident.  Talk about an oxymoron.  It will be interesting to see how my co-residents interpret this!  But I am going to do my best.  And really, everyone in the Department of Surgery has been phenomenal so far!

After these next two weeks, according to my midwife, I can go back to my “normal activities” and I can have the baby whenever I want to.  HA.  It’s funny.  I feel like we are back to square one where we were with Bryson (remember this post?).   Well, hopefully we will maintain control a little while longer, and there will be no baby news until after July 11, when I hit the magic 36 week mark!