House Rest

I wrote last week about my midwife recommending that I cut back and take it easy to ease the strong contractions that I was experiencing. After about a week of diligently resting in the afternoons when I got home from work, the contractions were still coming on strong in the evenings, even if I was just sitting around the house. So as of Thursday I am on what we're calling "house rest." I am not restricted to the bed but I am restricted to the house until next weekend. After next weekend I am free to resume normal activity. For now I am allowed to sit and surf the Internet, watch TV or scrapbook but I shouldn't stand for lengths of time or get up and down too frequently. I am also supposed to try to drink a gallon of water everyday; Friday & yesterday I think I only hit about 100 oz.
We are pretty unclear about my due date, but according to our math & the ultrasound, I should be about 35 weeks along right now. I need to make it to 36 to deliver outside the hospital & I would really like to make it to 37 just to be sure that Connor is fully developed and won't have digestion issues or otherwise. I laid in bed most of the day Thursday consumed with worry and fears and making list upon list of all that needs to be done before this baby arrives, but by the end of the day the Lord really comforted me. He assured me that I can't see inside my womb and I don't know the development of my baby but He can and He does. I don't need to worry because He goes before me and He has promised to uphold me. I am learning to rest in those promises and trust His timing. After all, when He is ready, I will go into labor and we will have a baby.
I am truly so excited and the anticipation is growing by the hour I think. I've started packing the things we want with us at the birth center for when he arrives and trying to list the things we still need and all the questions I have for my midwife. We see her again Friday. I'll keep you up to date with the latest news.