My doctor wants me on bedrest to prevent me from going into premature labor. That is all well and good, but I have felt perfectly fine.
There is no scientific evidence that supports bedrest and its' effects on premature labor. No one knows if it truly works.
Doctors claim that it reduces pressure on your cervix and helps lower your blood pressure, and helps you relax.
This is what I have to say about that....
1) Since I have been on bedrest, my body has been killing me. While I get up and try to stretch to prevent my legs from cramping, it happens anyway. Laying down all day is hurting my back and my hips from pressure. My legs and arms fall asleep.
2) Bedrest so far, has NOT reduced my blood pressure. If anything, it has shot through the roof. Because of this "bedrest", I can not work. I can't work, so bills are not getting paid. As of right now, if I do not go back to work within 3 weeks of my having the baby, we are going to be seriously in the red. I can't take it easy knowing that. I can't take it easy knowing that I can't support myself and my husband. He works his ass off all day and gets paid nearly nothing for it (yes, he is an attorney, but a POORLY paid one for the work he does) It scares me to death thinking about what is going to happen to us in just a month or two. I wake up early and stay up late at night looking for a job that I can do while I am home with the baby, but everything is a freakin' scam. So far, bedrest has not helped my health.
It is taking everything I have not to call my temp agencies and have them put me back on their job lists.
So, let's say I have the baby and then decide to return to work. How will I pay for child care?
Our credit is shot. We have no available room on our cards.
We are in a bind, and I am so extremely frustrated that I can not work right now because my doctor says I can't and that I may have the baby in a couple of weeks. How am I going to take care of this child.....
uuuuurgggh...
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