My OB has never said no more. I have Chronic Gestational Hypertension and it has been managable everytime. She was not even concerned today about me going into preterm labor because I got the steriod shot last week and she feels that the baby is now developed enough to be healthy...or she was at least trying to keep me from worrying about delivering early so I would not get anxious. Anytime in the womb now is just better and better. DD was only one week early and I was only just starting to show signs of preeclampsia and both me and my OB had court dates on the following Monday (completely unrelated cases) so it just worked out for both of us to induce me a week early because I was not going to make it through the weekend and would have ended up in the hospital on that Monday if I was not induced. The main reason I am having trouble with the blood pressure is because I weigh more this time than last time. I was 184 pounds the day I delivered DD....lost the weight and slowly gained it back until I got pg weighing 184 pounds again! I now weigh 205. I want to wait until I can get my wieght down to at least 150 before I get pg again and then I am pretty sure I will be able to avoid a lot of the blood pressure problems. So, basically I know it is my own fault because I should have tried to lose weight before I tried to get pg.
I have never had post partum depression...I call it pre partum depression. I don't want to get off the couch or out of bed unless I have to! I am actually liking the idea of being on bedrest because then I have an excuse to stay in bed all day!!! But, as soon as I deliver I am ready to walk out of the hospital and be back to my life!! I have a couple of friends at church that have gone through serious post partum depression and for them it is dibilitating.
The biggest thing for me is that I have such a supportive family!! My mom offered to come up in the morning and pick up 6 yo and possibly 3 yo too. The older three boys are completely content and behaved to just everything that I asked and then scatter to go watch tv. They will watch tv literally all day and not make a peep if I let them. 3 yo does good as long as one of the older boys are at her beck and call. But, 6 yo...a great kid...but tends to want to take advantage of the older three boys and then throw a fit if they do not do exactly what he wants and the older three tend to pick at him a bit more. My MIL will take all the kids anytime she has the night off from work. She actually gets offended if I ask my mom to watch the kids before I ask her. My MIL usually always has the kids one day a week just so I can do all my running to town. So, Friday is MY day! My Mom and MIL's houses are on my way to everywhere I go so it is so easy drop the kiddos off everytime I go to do something. If my family was not so helpful it would probably be a whole different story!!
I think my MIL likes to help us by watching the kids for us because my BIL and his wife make GOOD $$ and are in debt up to their eyeballs and are always asking her for $$. We have never asked her for $$...she does not have a whole lot. So, her way of helping us is to help with the kids so we can NEVER complain about the $$ she gives to BIL (and we never would) because she does so much for the kids. And BIL does not have any kids but she gives him $$ so it is even as far as I am concerned. Although it drives my DH crazy that his brother asks his mom for $$ when he makes so much!
My mom and I are like best friends. There have been a couple of comments made about how my BFF treats her mother and her mother treats her. My BFF's mother totally favors her brother over her. But, my BFF forever can not talk decently to her mother at all. My mom made the comment "Which would you do more for? The one that talks to you and treats you nice or the one that refuses to talk to you?" My sister treats my mom like crap!! I told my mom she is stuck with me and there is nothing she can do about it!! And she HAS to listen to me talk to her for hours on end about nothing and she has no choice because she is not getting rid of me!!!
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