Modified bed rest

I realize this is all necessary for the health and pure survival of this little girl but Im hoping its doable! It's going to be interesting to parent the kids from the couch most of the day..oh TV you will be my babysitter for the next 3 months or so. Yesterday, I decided to do some grocery shopping for the week and Tday dinner after being cooped up all week long with the "illness" that crippled me and the kids. Well apparantly my uterus had other plans because by the time I was done with the produce (I do that section first) I was in a panic. I was having very strong braxton hicks (or very mild regular contractions, however you want to say it) the point is, they were coming every 20 minutes and even thought they werent painful on their own, I was also having a very sharp stabbing pain in my lower abdomen. So I get to the ER and they send me up to L&D where they do the NST. I had 3 more contractions and one of which was strong enough to read on the monitor. Doctor checked me and I wasn't dialated, THANK GOD, and she gave me a shot of Trebutaline to stop the contractions. That shit was crazy! The side effect of that drug made my heart beat so strong I thought my eyeballs were going to come out of their sockets. It was like I ran a 100 yard dash but I was laying down. Doctor told me to come in the office today and have an ultrasound to measure my cervix. So today, I lay around all morning and at noon take Mase to Pk and Cami and I was off to the Dr. The u/s tech said my cervix was thinner than it should be ranging from 2-2.8cm. It's supposed to be 3 cm so the Dr came in the room and told me to take it real easy and "nothing in the vagina." Needless to say Bill is not too pleased. BUT he's very concerned so in his sympathy and grave concern for mine and the baby's well being said "I'll just be getting lots of blowies, right??" LOL that guy is something else. I just raised one eyebrow at him and glared a little. Im still laughing at that. I know he'll deal, we both will. It's going to be real hard on the pair of us for at least 8 more weeks. But that only brings me to 30 weeks along. Still in my mind I know that this lil girl has a fighting chance at 30 weeks. It is utterly critical to get to 27 but I think I can actually exhale at 30. I just cannot believe this is happening! Even though Cami came at 34 weeks I really thought this one would go normally. OH and another thing...I have to go have my cervix length checked every two weeks, yes that is an INTERNAL u/s and once a week I have to go in for an injection of Progesterone. That is the only proven thing to help stave off labor. But the icing on this cake is the baby's hearbeat was really erratic and need to go back to the Perinatologist that did my Level II u/s a month ago. The u/s tech said it was probably because of the cup of coffee I drank today and by the time I get to the this next u/s with the Peri it will have corrected itself if I stay away from caffeine. OHOHOHOHOH there's more!! My Dr office told me that my insurance has started denying all the u/s's Ive been having because they've been so frequent. So if we start getting bills in the mail we have to go thru all this red tape to get them to pay. Wow that was a lot for one day. So anyway, I can do light housework, normal errands, but thats about it. Well off to the TV.