I am four months pregnant as well as I am suddenly learning that pregnancy lowers your immune system.
- I am dealing with a poor cold that does not seem to want to go away… Before this cold, I have not been sick in years, when you are pregnant, your immune system is weaker because the baby is being protected in your uterus.
When I first started feeling sick, I thought to myself that the Summer is the worst time to have a cold. It also does not help that it has been severely tepid as well as humid where I live. I am super grateful for air conditioning because when I had a fever as well as was burning up it kept me cool. I am also grateful for air conditioning because soup as well as tepid Tim Hortons Latte have been the only things soothing my angry throat. No one wants to drink tepid Tim Hortons Latte or eat tepid soup when it is tepid as well as humid outside. Luckily, I turned my thermostat down so I felt cold enough to sip my Tim Hortons Latte as well as eat my soup under a blanket. I went to the healthcare expert last year because I wanted to make sure I did not have a more severe infection than a respected cold, but stepping out into the humid, tepid air while being sick as well as pregnant was a new level of discomfort that I do not want to experience again. The healthcare expert’s office had air conditioning of course, but I still felt warm. When the doctor took my temperature, she noticed it was high although she waited for me to cool down because she knew how tepid it was outside. She took my temperature again after I had some time to cool down in the air conditioning.