Bed rest for a spastic always moving person. (That's Luke and I)

Call it a crazy feeling, mothers intuition, or whatever - I told Matt that I thought I would hear the words "bed rest" come out of the doctors mouth this week. I've been overdoing it (surprise, surprise). In early February I had a few "higher" blood pressure readings, but my urine was clean. Today i had another "higher" reading - 140/90 that went down to 126/78 after resting on my side for 5 minutes. Early February I had a trace amount of protein in my urine, the next visit I had none. Today I had +1. When you get to +3 the baby has to be delivered. The doctor is wanting me to do a test run on bed rest. She said that standing/sitting/exerting myself is making my heart work a little too hard and it's obvious that if I were to be laying down I would it would be just fine. This weekend if you come over don't drink from the jug in the fridge, because I'm doing a 24 hour test to see if my protein increases over 24 hours.

The crazy person in me wants to rebel and get everything on my to-do list done, but I promise to be good and lay still. Thank the Lord for netflix, books I've been wanting to read, and a husband who is promising to maintain a clean house for me so I won't be tempted to get up.

Best case: I get released from bed rest on Monday and ordered to take it easy. Let's all pray for that to happen.

Side note: Some how, miraculously, amazingly, I lost 3 pounds in the past week (brought me down to 15 pounds total for the pregnancy). Which is one of the preeclampsia factors that are keeping them from diagnosising me. Symptoms for me personally of preecclampsia are: swelling (I mean major swelling), weight gain (usually about 20 lbs + in my 3rd trimester), higher and higher blood pressures, protein in my urine, headaches... So far I am only having the protein symptom and minimal increase in my blood pressure.

I was pretty much told Luke will be born before his April 19th scheduled csection. I am right at 35 weeks. I need to make it to 37+ to assure that his lungs will be fully developed. Pray for that to happen too.

Thanks for praying and listening. Whatever happens, I know in less than a month i will get to finally see his precious face and this pregnancy journey will be over!