A busy week!

My camera is dead, so I can't put any pictures up at the moment, but it has been a busy week!
Wednesday my kindergarten teaching friends threw a baby shower for me at the school. The generosity of those I work with was overwhelming. I really do work with a great bunch of people who really care about me. I can't believe all the amazing stuff I received. I got tons of money to help buy the big items, a swing, a bassinet, plus lots of clothes and necessities for taking care of the baby! I have pictures, I just have to charge the camera later today!
Thursday was my doctor's appointment. I have been having a lot of swelling in my feet and recently my hands and face. The doctor said my feet were excessively swollen but since my blood pressure was okay he wasn't to concerned. Then he checked out the baby and saw that our baby has not grown much since he measured him four weeks ago. Baby is healthy just not growing, and is about 6.7 lbs. He concluded that my placenta is probably done doing it's job anymore. So I was sent away told to monitor my blood pressure twice a day and to come see him on Monday with my blood pressure results and they would check everything out again.
So yesterday I had the school nurse take my blood pressure in the morning and afternoon, please keep in mind it was parent/teacher conference day. Not to mention the nurse at school is not the calmest person in the world. In the morning it was 154/106 and when I left school it was 140/100. In case you are like me and don't know much about blood pressure, mine has been at about 110/70 the entire pregnancy. She was freaking out telling me to call my doctor. Well, she kinda freaks out about everything, so I didn't really get worried. I came home, Kyle and I went and got the compression socks the doctor ordered me to wear and then came home for a relaxing evening. I told Kyle about my blood pressure and the nurse freaking out and he got on the computer and started looking things up. Apparently he didn't find out anything good because he had my doctor on the phone in minutes and my doctor told me to go straight to the hospital that my blood pressure was way to high and if it didn't go down I would have to be induced.
At the hospital my blood pressure was back to normal and the babies heartbeat was good. I didn't want to stay the night but they insisted. The woke me up at 5:55am for my blood pressure and baby heartbeat check again and all was okay. My doctor got there at about 7am and told me that at this point since things had calmed down I could go home, just to keep monitoring and we would make decisions on Monday at my appointment depending on swelling and my numbers. I am so thankful that everything is okay and that I am home. Luckily I had a nice young English-speaking German girl for a roommate, and she made the stay much more pleasant.
So now I am at home being commanded by the husband to do nothing but sit. I have a lot that I feel needs to get done, so this is not going to be an easy task. Trying to stay stress-free is also not easy. Yesterday Kyle was informed he will be leaving next Saturday for a the entire month of May. They say that as soon as I go into labor I can call and they will have him home. This does not really please me, so in some ways I am thinking being induced this next week might not be so bad. He will have 10 days home with me and then my parents arrive on the 12th so that isn't to much time to be on my own. Right now, I just keep telling myself that God is in control and is going to take care of us. (However, telling myself this and fully relying and trusting in God is not as easy, but I am trying!)