Bed rest for 10 wks :(

I just found out one of my friends has been on bed rest for 2 weeks, and has to stay there for at LEAST another 10 weeks! She says there people at her house all the time, helping her with the kids and the housework etc, but she's still lonely.

I don't want her to get too depressed, and I want to help her out however I can. It sounds like everyone has the day to day things settled, but I decided to make a 'survival kit' for her - and I need help putting it together!

She said she has a million puzzle books, so I stayed away from those, but I've bought her 3 beginners knitting kits that seemed pretty cool - baby hat and mittens, scarf and beret for herself, and a baby blanket. I was also going to offer to come over and cook dinner at her house once a week, and stay with her to eat so she has company and her DH doesn't hafta cook that night.

Can you think of anything else? ALL help is welcome :)

a nice book? a journal to write her journey so far?

I was on bed rest for 12 weeks. I would say definately a jouranl! Also I taught myself how to knit and crotchet and did heaps of projects for baby in that time. So also a range of wools.

Another thing would be meditaion / relaxation cd's for her to reduce her stress levels (I needed that badly!). My mum paid a private yoga teacher to come to my house once a week to teach me streching and relaxation (approved by my OB).

I had trouble reading or watching TV due to the drugs I had to take so maybe large print books or books on tape from the library.

Oh how sucky,my aunty was in bed rest in the hospital from 13-14 weeks im thinking maybe some magazines like a new one every week to keep her upto date on the latest gossip or maybe a photo album or some scrapbooking paper and stuff so she can get her albums in order

wish her all the best

Thanks for all your suggestions ladies! DH and I went over Saturday night along with some others and we had a bit of a party - I think it provided some much needed excitement :)

We've arranged to go over there for dinner once a week, and I'll cook so her DH doesn't have to, and we won't keep telling her to go to bed. I think thats the biggest thing at the moment, she just feels so out of control. Everytime she gets up sometimes tells her off, she has to lay there and listen to other people playing with her kids - she's getting very down. Luckily I'm off work at the moment, so I'll spend as much time as possible with her - but I don't want her to get sick of me either :)

If she is allowed to go out in a wheelchair hire one and take her out somewhere. Cabin fever will be getting to her before long.

Sounds like you have been doing a great deal for her ,sunflowa

I was only bedridden for 3 weeks but I found just having company was the most important thing. And people just having regular old conversations with me also helped.

Is she into arts or crafts at all? I had 3 cross stitch things on the go, I hadn't done much before that so it was great learning something new and boy can the day go quickly when your working on something like that.

You do get bored with magazines and books and TV so for me good conversation was the best thing.

Hope that helps.

Nae x