Bed rest is extremely boring.
Yesterday we had our first major outing with H. We wanted to take D to 'Chuckie Cheese' restaurant, a kids place where there are zillions of electronic games and similar for them to play and one of D's favourites. I decided to go rather than stay at home all day so spent 2 or 3 hours following D around the various game machines and pushing H around in his pram who, despite the noise and lights, thankfully slept through the experience.
After we were done we had to stop by the car dealership - our new car is ready on Tuesday so we had to sign some final paperwork and we got to look at it and sit in it and play....and although I was a little dubious about the whole minivan stereotype I have to say I'm thoroughly impressed by this vehicle, it's very very luxurious inside indeed! Typically the paperwork filling out session took forever and I had begun to feel very tired indeed and then noticed a huge increase in my post partum bleeding (sorry if TMI there!)
Coming home I read in various books and on the web that the bleeding should have almost stopped before 1 week after the birth....9 days after and mine is no less, still very heavy, and gets worse the more I do. Obviously I shouldn't be doing anything like as much as I did yesterday, so G has confined me to bed rest to make sure this doesn't get any worse and has a chance to heal and slow down. So far today things seem a little better. If it's not significantly better by Tuesday, though, I will have to call the DR. I hope it is nothing more than having done a little too much, combined with the anticoagulants I'm taking making it a little worse than it might otherwise be.
Anyway - here I am, in bed, bored, getting up only to feed H who is lying beside me (asleep, unlike his 12-3 grumpy time last night as usual!) and surfing thanks to G's spare laptop and wireless network.
Posted by katie at August 1, 2004 05:47 PMDon't worry after all 3 of my C-sections I bled for over 3 weeks. That and a cobination of being on your feet fro too long.
Posted by: Laura at August 2, 2004 03:20 AMAnd no doubt the anti-coagulants don't help either. See a doctor if it doesn't get better, just to be sure, but it's probably nothing to be concerned about.
-Steve (& Dee, too!)
Posted by: Steve at August 2, 2004 12:15 PMLOL - was just about to say the same as both of the above..... i bled for 6 weeks with both, and then it started to change. 3 months in all of wearing 'Always' - i ended up having to use bloomin' seudocrem cause it was sore!!!!!!
take it easy - enjoy wee Spike and the chance to lie down!!!
I am sooo proud of you - you are a bloody marvel!
Posted by: Boo at August 2, 2004 04:46 PMthanks guys for the reassurance!
Posted by: katie at August 2, 2004 08:57 PM