36 weeks 3 days

I had a checkup Friday, they'll be weekly from now until i have the baby. didn't go too well, it never does when I have to see this doctor. It's a practice of doctors, there are 4. I love 3 of them and tolerate this one. She's very blunt and over-reactive...which doesn't go well with someone who's overly worried about things.

Anyways, I gained 11 lbs in 2 weeks and am retaining fluid(she thinks it's 11 lbs of straight fluid that I gained). my blood pressure is fine and nothing else is wrong- I'm just swollen. I have a tendency to swell even when i'm not pregnant, so I wasn't too worried. But, she squeezed my legs and said "no more work, bed rest." I didn't say anything, I just started tearing up. This is the second time she's threatened me with bed rest and i'm getting a little tired of it. She saw me crying and said I can give it another week and she'll re-evaluate then, but when I'm not at work I need to be off my feet and keeping them elevated. Part of me thinks it's poppycock- if it was important for me to be on bedrest, why would she back down so quickly? Especially when I didn't fight it, I just had tears coming down my face.

I guess I'll be wrapping everything up at work this week in case I do officially go on bed rest. Oh- and she also said "there's no way you'll make it to your due date." Apparently I have a large baby, not monster size, just large. She said she'd be fine if I went into labor and had him this week! I'm not so sure I'd be fine with that, I thought I had another 4 weeks to get everything really ready. but, i'm already dilated a bit and effaced some, so we'll just have to see.