Baby Update
Erica had a routine checkup Monday morning and after seeing slightly elevated blood pressure her doctor sent her in for some additional testing and monitoring. Once he saw the results of that he put her on bed rest till the baby is born. I heard Erica’s side of the conversation when she broke that news to her employer… it sounded like they were just thrilled.
So, Erica has been sitting still as much as possible since Monday afternoon and I have taken over most of her usual activities. Luckily this was the week when we had purposefully not scheduled much to be going on, since the baby is due next Wednesday. Still, adding her duties to my own, and adjusting my schedule to fit all the things that need to get done, had been quite a change. The main difference is that I now take Jonathan to school in the mornings and then go to work, then I pick him up when he’s done and bring him back to the office with me so I can put in my full 8 hour day. It’s only about an hour and a half difference in my arrival and departure times, but it has done a number on me. I feel like there is no time to get anything done when I get home in the evenings! It’s kind of ironic because I had been wondering lately what it would be like to work the same hours as the rest of the office. I don’t like it.
Erica has reacted well to the change, all things considered. Her mom had the latter part of the week off work already, so she has been spending the day at our house helping distract Marissa, who is on spring break this week, keeping things tidy and helping Erica get her lunches. I do breakfast and dinner. Mentally, I think Erica probably feels like she was in a big race that set records for the first 100 laps and has now slowed to a crawl for the last ten. She was already starting to get anxious to have the baby, and now suddenly she has very little to occupy her time other than navel gazing, which of course leads to thoughts of the rest of her belly and the little person who is occupying it. So we sit during the evenings talking about how much we want the baby to be here and trying to find interesting things to do that don’t involve being up off the couch or any kind of physical exertion. We’re watching a lot of movies and TV, needless to say.
