I struggled to figure out what activities to do on bed rest and struggled to figure out my new identity as basically-an-incubator (and a terrible incubator at that). I mourned the person I was before my bedrest and pregnancy complications. Thankfully both our babies were born healthy, but that doesn’t make the bed rest experience any less traumatic. My world felt small and my anxiety felt great the focus of each day was to make it through without a medical catastrophe. I know how jarring it is to suddenly be on bedrest. In total, I spent nearly 8 months on bed rest with my first pregnancy, curled up under a window on our couch.Īnd then I did it all over again for a second hyperemesis pregnancy (this time with a cerclage that thankfully held my cervical issues at bay until the third trimester). So when I was formally put on modified bed rest at 23 weeks for cervical incompetence, I had already been stuck in bed for months. I suffer from hyperemesis gravidarum when pregnant - a disabling condition where your nausea and vomiting is so severe you can’t live normally - and was too sick to leave bed (read more about my hyperemesis experience). I had actually become bedridden with my first pregnancy shortly after seeing the two little lines on a pregnancy test. As we walked into her office she said, “what do you do outside the home? Because you don’t anymore.” I had just finished an ultrasound that showed my cervix had funneled in a scary way. I remember so vividly how my first OB told me she was putting me on bed rest. I hope my experience can help make your bedridden time a little more bearable. ![]() Looking for ideas of what to do on bed rest? Below you’ll find tips and things to do while on bedrest from my personal experience spending over 15 months on bed rest during my pregnancies.īed rest is isolating, scary and, let’s be real, boring.
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