35 week update

I am 35 weeks and 2 days today and we went to my first post-hospital-stay doctor's appointment this afternoon.  Dr. Tran checked me and I have not dilated anymore!  (so still 3cm and 80% effaced).  I have not changed at all since this all started last Tuesday!  Now we are wondering if I am going to stall out at 3cm and then eventually have to be induced - ha!  (she did say she's seen it happen before).  Of course, that would be perfectly ok because the longer she cooks, the more time she has to develop....but I have to be honest and say that I'm kinda ready to get things going after being on bedrest for 10 days so far.  I know God has a perfect plan and already knows her birthday!


I will run out of albuterol on Sunday, and Dr. Tran said to just take it until then and stop.  She is comfortable with stopping a little shy of 36 weeks and said that even if I were to go into labor tonight, I am far enough along that they wouldn't do anything to stop it.  Plus, I had the steroid dose so that has hopefully helped to develop Aubrey's lungs a little more.

Now, oddly enough we did not talk about bedrest today.  I guess she forgot to mention it and I forgot to ask.  I thought about it when we were on our way home so I called back and spoke to one of her nurses.  She said that if Dr. Tran didn't say anything about it, then I should continue bedrest until my next appointment (which is NEXT Friday).  That kinda doesn't make sense to me because if she is ok with me stopping the albuterol on Sunday, then why would I need to stay on bedrest all the way through Friday?  I can see bedrest through Tuesday (36 weeks) but if I'm not even on the albuterol anymore, then I don't see the point in complete bedrest beyond 36 weeks (especially since she is ok with me going into labor at that point).  The more I think about it, the more I am wondering......SO, I'm going to call back tomorrow and DOUBLE double check!  The nurse will probably think I'm crazy for asking the same question twice, but I want her to actually check with Dr. Tran.  She (Dr. T) is going to be out of town through next Wednesday so I need to know exactly what I should do about the bedrest thing.  Hopefully it will just be through Tuesday.  Of course, after that I am a little nervous about going back to my normal routine because it is just exhausting wrangling Caleb all day by myself and I don't know how my body is going to react to that after basically sitting/laying on the couch/bed for so long!

So, that's the update for now.  Praise God that we have made it this much further with little Aubrey still inside my belly!  Last week (especially the first few days in the hospital) was really scary (even though I know people go through much worse and have problems much earlier than 34 weeks), but I am feeling so much better about the whole situation now...especially knowing that I have not dilated any further and we are so close to 36 weeks.  Now, if I could only convince Rhett do do all my nesting for me, I would feel even better - ha!  No, he has done a lot - he's just not as impatient about getting the nursery and everything else ready as I am.  :-)