What ever happened to my "mega immune" system?

It's been a shitty week.

Somewhere I'm sure I read somewhere that pregnant women have mega immune systems - whoever wrote it deserves to have what I've been in bed with for the past week.

It started with a little cough - nothing to worry about I tell myself. 24hours later I'm laid up with a fever breaking the 39 degrees Celsius barrier. No sore muscles, no runny nose just a blasted cough and this fever.

It's 3.45am, I'm in bed, dosed myself up with paracetamol before I start getting really worried about what a fever this high will do to my foetus - so I drag myself around the house pulling down all my pregnancy books looking in the index for "fever" hoping to reassure myself that it will all be OK. Do you think ANY of the books have any information about high fevers in pregnancy? Well none that I could lay my hands on at 4am. I retreated to hubby's study where his computer is busy doing something I can't understand and log on to the trusty Internet.

Thank goodness for Mothersafe. It's based at a Sydney hospital and provides information for pregnant and breastfeeding women about a variety of dangers. There I found a fact sheet on fevers and was able to reassure myself that a trip to the doctor the next day would be OK - that there was no need to wake up hubby and call an ambulance.

(http://www.sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au/rhw/mothersafe.asp)

A visit to the doc the next day confirms that there's not much else I can do - take more paracetamol to keep the fever down, keep my fluid intake up and rest, rest rest. He's reasonably sure it's not swine flu and doesn't recommend I take Tamiflu but thinks I should be OK in a few days.

Unfortunately we have tickets to see Judith Lucy live at the Opera House on Saturday night with babysitters booked for the entire evening! I keep thinking I'll be OK. I try leaving the house Friday morning to drop master 2 at daycare. Return and sleep for 4 hours - nope. Not going to happen.

So we miss the show (hopefully our friends found other people to enjoy the tickets), but still use the babysitting so we can both have a lie in on Sunday morning. I've eaten almost 3 meals today so I'm hoping I'll be able to manage a day at work tomorrow. I have an afternoon appointment at the hospital so it won't be a long day - but I'm hoping I'll be up to it.

Super pregnancy immune system.

BAH!

Good news though is that hubby got the passports for him and Master 2 sorted, so we're all systems go to book our final holiday as a family of 3 (Vanuatu if you're curious!).