Is there any chance i have caused damage ?

Hi, i am 21 weeks pregnant and for the last couple of days i have felt really ill, my brother kindly gave me his cold but it has completely knocked me for six and yesterday all i could manage to eat was a bowl of cereal and half a tin of soup and today so far all i have managed is a bowl of cereal which i had to force down.





I'm really worried i may have caused damage to my baby by not eating properly.


Any comments will be appreciated|||You have not caused damage, because you have eaten at least something. If anything he/she just isn't getting as much nutrition as he/she should be getting. Try to drink a carnation instant breakfast or something like that, or drinking some vitamin water. Keep up on the electrolytes and don't over do it, make sure you rest a lot. When you rest it gives the baby a good time to grow because you aren't moving around or tightening the muscles around the uterus. Be very careful with what medicines you take also. If it hasn't gone away in a couple days, make sure to contact your obgyn. Colds will not spread to the baby, but since your immune system is down you have a better chance of getting an infection and that could spread.|||Your baby is fine. If you've been well nourished up until now, the baby can easily draw on your stores of nutrients to meet his needs.





(Think about all the women who have morning sickness for weeks or months and can barely eat anything. Think about women in the third world who live on nothing but rice or corn-meal.)|||Your baby is fine! The wonderful thing about pregnancy is, the baby will take nutrients from you before she suffers herself--so you'll feel worse, but the baby will be protected.





Have you been able to keep down your prenatal vitamins? If you are, then you're providing your baby with nutrients anyway, so you're doing pretty okay.





Good luck, and feel better!