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Today I went to another Dr.'s appointment... and it was the BEST ONE EVER!! :) I am officially OFF BED REST!!! The baby is healthy, swimming around, the heartbeat is strong, and the bleeding from it detaching from the uterus is gone. The doctor said there is no residual blood in there and not even any scarring. He was surprised that I had healed that fast and with no real evidence that it had been bleeding at all. He had never seen that before. HOORAY!!

I am allowed to lift up the boys now, and walk around anywhere I want, and do everything I have been missing so much. As soon as I got home I scooped up Hawken and went over to Matix for some more snuggles. Obviously, a pregnant person shouldn't go around carrying heavy objects, but I now can go back to my NORMAL LIFE!! :) (Can you tell I am excited?!)

The cyst on my ovary that had burst is still bleeding and reabsorbing, and it will be for a while (they don't know how long), but they are not worried in the least about it. It has nothing to do with my bed rest, and although I will have reduced energy, some pain, and nausea from it, I can go about my regular business. It will reabsorb on it's own and I don't have to think about it.

The sad news is, this means that Grandma Stacy will probably be leaving us soon. It has been so nice having her here. The boys LOVE LOVE LOVE her and have been having so much fun. She has been taking good care of us too, cooking for us, cleaning up after us, letting me sleep ridiculous amounts of hours in a day, and every evening after the boys are down to sleep she leaves to study so that Paul and I can have some alone time (her idea, SO thoughtful, right?)...

We feel SO blessed to have had so many prayers said on our behalf, the candles lit for the baby, the priesthood blessing I was given, our names written on temple rolls in quite a few temples, the masses that were dedicated to us, and all the well wishes and happy thoughts sent our way. IT WORKED! :) This baby is on it's way! :)