Go Team Bed Rest!!

Got a surprise e-mail from Dr. R yesterday saying that he would like me to come in for a check to see how everything was progressing. We, of course, showed up first thing today, after a fairly sleepless night full of worries about what new statistic or measurement we would encounter to send us into new spasms of concern.

But, after a slow car ride down El Camino with me strapped into the fully reclined front seat, marveling at the blossoming treetops I could see through the windshield from my position of repose, I am DELIGHTED to report the following news:

I am no longer funneled all the way down to the stitch, but rather I have re-gained 4mm of cervix above the stitch!! And I still have 26mm of cervix below the stitch. Go team bed rest!!

He said cervix feels firm and doesn't feel like there is pressure on it. The girls are measuring on track: Baby A is measuring 25 weeks and Baby B is measuring 25 weeks and 6 days. He also had me on the contraction monitor for thirty minutes and since I had no contractions, he did not re-prescribe the indocin or the anti-biotics this week. And he suggested that I see him again in two weeks, at 27.5 weeks.

Who would have thought that 4mm of anything could bring on such feelings of joy and relief.

We know we are not out of the woods, and that we still have weeks and weeks to go. Case in point: I asked Dr. R whether it was, in fact, pure myth that they were going to let me sit back up at 28 weeks, and he admitted that I was pretty much gonna being lying down until these gals get here.

But that is just fine with me! How much easier bed rest is to take with the knowledge in hand that it is working, that we are lightening Cedric's load. How lovely to hear the numbers move in the right direction.

Go Team Bed Rest!!