Grounded

We were planning on leaving for CA on Dec 23rd and staying through the 27th. My Mom had graciously gotten most of my kids presents for me since I couldn't go shopping and the rest I had mailed to her house.
Sam had been bugging me for a couple days that I should check with my Dr. to see if it was okay for me to travel, after all my first bleed was while we were on vacation. I procrastinated calling but finally remembered on the morning of the 22nd but wasn't able to get ahold of him because it was a surgery day. So I had did laundry and packed for the trip all day.
The next morning I noticed I had missed a call from my Dr. office and called them back since we were leaving in a few hours. I told the nurse why I was calling and she said "Oh yeah I am pretty sure you are grounded. I was in shock because I really did not believe I wouldn't be able to sit in a car."
"We are just driving not flying" I said in hopes that she had misunderstood.
She replied "I will ask the Dr but I am pretty sure that includes driving."
She talked to the Dr. and he confirmed it NO TRAVELLING!

So as the news started to sink in I started to cry because we didn't have a Christmas! It was December 23rd we were planning on leaving in a few hours, I was mostly packed and ready to go. We didn't have a Christmas tree because there would have been one at my parents house. We barely had one or two Christmas decorations and now we had to get ready for Santa!?!?! What the heck were we going to do?

I called back the Dr. office (FYI- I apologize every time I go in to the office because I know I am one of those patients that is a pain.) and asked that my Dr. call me about the travelling restrictions so I could understand why. He did call and said that travelling is hard on any pregnant woman and if you have any pregnancy complications it may make them worse. But why? The altitude change, the stress on the body of sitting in one position for extended periods of time, the STRESS of packing, basically it is all really stressful.

I tried to get my family to come to me but with the short notice it just wasn't possible. I had to get over it and try to figure out what we were going to do for Christmas. Luckily I have Sam!