A matter of drinking cold water...

If you ask all doctors in the world, they would say that contrary to old believes, there is actually no connection between drinking cold water/juice/other fluids and the weight of your baby.

To drink ice water in front of your mom however, you may trigger an half an hour lecture of the danger of seemingly innocent, deliciously tempting cold drinks in hot weather. You will have big baby, your womb will somehow lowers, etc, etc.

A couple of nights ago, I was having dinner with my parents in WAPO, in Kayoon which is well known for its huge portion with small cost. The restaurant has no AC, and in the humid, stuffy hot weather of Surabaya, the prospect of having Es Blewah can make anyone drool, let alone if you're eight months (very close to nine) pregnant who's even sweating in an air conned room.

Of course, as suspected, my mum made a huge fuss about it. I told her that none of the doctors, obgyns I've met said that it's not ok to drink ice (ok, i shouldn't have had sweet blewah juice, but she made a fuss about the fact that it's cold, not the fact that it's sweet. So why disclosing that fact?). That it is scientifically proven that once the cold water pass your throat, the temperature follows your body's, and it won't stay cold in your tummy. So how would it affect my baby?

My mum, of course, insists that being a mom of three, she knows better than the doctors because of her own personal experience.

Well, i think i deserve a treat after a long day in the office. So I drank it anyway, with as much delight.

I love my mum of course, and she's the first person I called if I don't feel good. I try to listen and follow her advice. But more often than not, it is easier said than done. I wonder if my daughter will do the same to me.

Will I , in perhaps 25 years, scold my daughter for having cold juice? telling her it will cause her baby to be big? will i forget just how wonderful it feels to have sweet, cold, juicy blewah running down your throat when the temparature is almost unbearable and you're heavily pregnant?

Admittedly, I really won't know the true effect of cold water until perhaps years on. and honestly, i really don't care at this time.

As for my mum, who always told me that she demanded es blewah almost every night while pregnant with me, well, apparently she used to tell my dad (who scolded her because he believes ice water cause your baby to be big) that drinking cold water had no effect on the baby because the temperature changed after you drink it.

I was born 4.2kg nine months later, the biggest baby in Adi Husada hospital that night.