Changing Your Decision To Be A Maid Of Honor

I set two friends up and now they are getting married. While I don`t spend enormous amounts of time with either friend, I still feel that they are both awesome people. When they announced their engagement, about two years in advance of the wedding, I was asked to be the maid of honor. I was flattered and agreed. Since then some events in my life have drastically changed. My husband and I are expecting our second child, about two weeks before the wedding. Obviously we did not know this at the time that I agreed to be the MOH. I have started to experience some complications with my pregnancy and am being monitored for gestational diabetes and high blood pressure. My physicians have talked about bed rest. Additionally, my mother has incurred some serious health problems and is scheduled to have at least one surgery, possibly more depending on what occurs with the first suegery, within the next few months. The wedding is about four months away and I am worried that I might not be able to meet the obligations required as a MOH. Again, the bride is a wonderful girl and deserves to have a special wedding. I don`t want to let her down and am wondering if it is too late to back out of being the MOH.