Hospital Bedrest.

When I was pregnant with my second kid, I spent 2 months in the hospital… yes, 2 MONTHS, not weeks, not days…

I had complete placenta previa and started to bleed on the first day of my early maternity leave at 7-ish months. An ambulance took me to the hospital, where I remained until I had the baby.

I was there for exactly 2 months, and I saw so many other women come and go with so many different pregnancy complications… that experience really makes me appreciate the relative “normal-ness” of my life.

Anyways, I kept a blog while I was there, and here is one of the posts from when I was there…

Saturday, May 01, 2004

My official name in the ward…”THE easiest patient”! The nurses tell me that I am the easiest patient on the floor…why…I get my own water, I have my own towels, I don’t complain to get my sheets changed, I take my tray back to the kitchen when I finish my food, AND I never ring that call bell!! Now they only do my vital checks twice a day, once in the morning and once before I go to bed, I don’t see my nurse very much, although a lot of them are coming over to check on my cross-stitch progress! What is it with nurses and cross-stitch?! I never even heard of cross-stitch before I came in the hospital.

So, in other news…roommate number 1 is back. This is her 4th time back since I have been here, and she’s been coming in since January! Nurses refer to patients like her as ‘frequent flyers’. This time she thinks that she is in pre-term labour…she thought the same thing the last time she came in too…

My present roommate, number 14, is extremely quiet…sometimes I forget she is there. She has been reading her religious book non-stop since she got in here…she has about 3 more weeks to go…she tells me that her plan is to read…

I said goodbye to roommate number 13 today, she gave me a gift…I feel so special! She was really nice, we got along great… She told me that her nurse was telling her that one of the moms fell asleep while holding her baby and the baby fell to the ground!

There is a symphony going on in the room next door…once one baby starts to bawl…they all start to bawl. The ring-leader is really screaming though, I have not heard a newborn cry this much before…wow, don’t know how much sleep we going to get tonight!??!? – posted by s @ 10:06 PM