Week 16, flu, bed rest, and oranges

I’m entering my 16th week of pregnancy by having a severe influenza. I had a fever, cough, and runny nose. It was ugly. 

It is a common knowledge for expecting mothers that we cannot take any medicine. My doctor even said “there’s no safe medicine for expecting women, so please make sure you’re not sick.”

After suffering 2 days with fever, I went to see my doctor a week early from our original appointment. As usual, I went to Jogjakarta International Hospital (JIH) to see dr. Enny.

It’s been like my fourth and fifth time seeing her and i like her. She did gave me a lot of donts but somehow I feel safer that way, if that’s even make sense. 

Anywho, she told me to take some medicine and to eat fruit more. Yes, she is always telling me to keep consuming fruit, which is great because i prefer fruit than carbs during my pregnancy (somehow the carbs just make me feel nauseous).

And as detail as she always is, she said to consume more oranges. “Consume like 1 kilogram of oranges per day for three days. So Mrs. Grandmother (my mom) please buy 3 kilograms of oranges and blend them so the mother can consume it easily as juice.”

This is my third day with 1 kg of oranges and now I feel nauseous seeing oranges :(

But, hey I do feel a lot lot better in my third day. I dont know if it was the oranges, or the medicine, or the bed rest thing. It just worked. Hhhmm… fruit rather than medicine?? nice touch doc…

Dr. Enny also told me to get 2 days of bed rest, meaning I can only get up if i need to go to bathroom or to eat. I cannot do any work, even housework. My mom, who sat next to me,  leered at me and smirk as if she says “yeah, like you do any housework.” Ehehehe… love my mom so much deh mah…

And of course I just had to disobey that advice. In the evening at the very same day, I went out with my parents for dinner. And guess what, I felt like passing out after a couple of hours. We ended up canceling our dinner and went home directly. 

Then I realized I misunderstood the concept of bed rest. I thought it was for the safety of the baby, but it turned out it was for the mother. 

Despite everything, my baby is super healthy, said dr. Enny. She said my baby was very active as he/she kept moving in my belly. Alhamdulilah is all i can say because, honestly, sometimes I forgot to take my vitamins and I also ate junk food. So sorry baby, and thank you for being so healthy for me and you daddy.