Forced to Get Married Again
The Couvade Syndrome

"Alexes... Doctor Sam... Anyone there please come here now!!" shout Kei.

"What do you want, honey? Are you going to kick me out?" hardhan asked confusedly.

Then Sam's doctor came in, with several doctors trailing behind him.

"You're conscious apparently." said Sam as he approached Kei's bed.

Kei refused, "You check on my husband... The body's hot."

"I'm okay, baby... I'm just.." Hardhan's protest came to a halt when he saw his wife's fierce plot,

"Well okay... Please check on me Sam." continued Hardhan as he spread out his hands.

"When was the last time you ate?" ask doctor Sam.

Hardan rubbed his chin while pondering, "Hmmm, it looks like Soupe a l’oignon madame Agathe is the last meal I eat... That means I last had lunch yesterday."

"Aren't you fed on the plane?" for Kei.

Hardan shrugged, "No flight attendant or flight attendant dared to approach me, at that moment I behaved... Ah not friendly. After all who can eat with a state of almost half madness due to worry?!"

"Nothing to worry about, Hardhan was just exhausted and lacking rest. I'll prescribe paracetamol to lower the heat. Your sleep must not be good?"

"Not ask much... Now prepare lemon juice and ice cubes.." Hardhan ordered.

Sam blinked his eyes, puzzled by the sudden change in topic, "Lemon juice?"

"I'm not nauseous anymore Hardan... I don't need lemon juice right now." protested Kei.

"not for you... But for me. Shit, just getting on a plane makes me sick.." then Hardhan turned his attention to Sam, he said,

"What lifetime can I still experience a car hangover?" tanyakanya.

Sam opened his eyes again, "I've known you since Kindergarten... You've never drunk a vehicle, your belly is as strong as steel... What other complaints do you feel besides nausea?"

"In addition to dizziness, I get tired more easily, always feeling anxious, especially about Kei and the child he contains."

"Couvade syndrome." chirped one of the resident doctors behind Sam.

Hardhan, Sam and Kei looked directly at the resident's doctor, and the doctor lowered his head while biting his lower lip, fearing that Hardan was angry because he had so presumptuously helped provide an unsolicited diagnosis.

And he knew that Hardhan was the owner of this hospital, making him offended was as good as cutting off his search eye. Being fired from this hospital, then there will be no other hospital that will accept it.

"What do you mean?" asked Hardhan coldly.

Sam opened his mouth wanting to explain, but Hardan raised his hand, telling him to shut up.

"I want him to explain." said Hardhan, pointing at the doctor, leaning back in the chair, and folding his hands in front of his chest.

The doctor was seen letting out a long sigh before venturing out to see Hardhan and explaining his diagnosis,

"Couvade syndrome or Sympathetic pregnancy syndrome occurs when the husband feels cravings and experiences pregnancy symptoms such as those experienced by his wife during pregnancy. It usually occurs in the first and third trimesters." explains the doctor.

Hardan raised his eyebrows, "Do I have to believe it?"

"If you imagine it with logic it looks impossible, but this sympathetic pregnancy is real. The stronger the bond between husband and wife, the more pregnancy symptoms that can be experienced by the husband. According to the study of husbands who have symptoms of couvade, will eventually have a strong bond in children. This syndrome can also be felt by parents, in-laws, brothers, sisters, friends or anyone else who is close to the wife." explained the doctor with confidence.

Hardhan's eyebrows rose even higher, "What's your name?" tanyakanya.

"My name is Talita sir..."

"Ahh Talita... That means I love my wife too much to make me feel what she feels?"

"That could be one of the triggering factors, a feeling of empathy for a pregnant wife."

"alright... You can all go out. And you..." Hardan pointed at Sam, though,

"Don't forget my lemon juice... And also any damn medicine that can relieve my dizziness and aches!" continued.

"You can laugh now." as for Hardan when they were alone.

Kei giggled softly, "It looks like your son is really obeying you... Come darling... Sleeping next to me again, you must be tired."

"Do you still doubt me? Still don't believe me? Gee whiz... Even I experienced what the term was... Ahh sympathetic pregnancy. It should be able to dispel all your doubts to me." - Hardan scowled up onto the bed, and tucked his body under the blanket, then hugged Kei, their faces barely touching.

"I'm sorry... I want to believe you, but somehow I feel more sensitive, become irritable and easily sad." Sighed Kei Lirih while stroking her husband's hair.

"I understand it, maybe it's because of the pregnancy hormones... Before you were pregnant, you were jealous, especially when you were pregnant." - sage Hardan.

Kei snorted, "Who's jealous.." he looked up.

"You have to promise me you won't let anyone influence you again, which makes you doubt me. You should know that I love you so much, and there's only one fear in my life. I'm afraid of losing you. And you have to believe that..."

"Look, I promise... This time I really promise I will always trust you." Kei said then kissed Hardhan's lips, then smiled broadly, "Your lips are also hot..."

Hardan lay on his back with a long sigh, "At this moment my body is completely crushed, I myself wonder I can get here without making myself fall down. Even if I fall, I will stay here, even with a suck. You're making me very worried, baby... I almost put a gun to the driver so he could get me to this hospital sooner."

"Poor driver, you're always overdoing it, baby..."

"There's nothing superfluous when it comes to you." Hardan said, then yawned wide.

Kei lay on his side, his fingers gently stroking Hardhan's head, "You go to sleep first... I'll take care of you..."

"Ah... It felt very comfortable." murmured Hardhan as he closed his eyes.

And when Sam brought in a lemon juice pitcher, Hardhan was asleep. "Just put it in the fridge... And please freeze some of that lemon juice in an ice twist." pinta Kei.

"Love has made the powerful man as weak as a baby near his wife... I won't let any woman make me that way. Tsk... The love and silliness that goes with it." murmured Sam more to himself.

After doing what Kei asked, Sam went straight to Hardhan, then took out a syringe and medicine from his snell pocket. "I'll inject it with paracetamol..."

Hardhan must have been far into his dreamland, so as not to wake up or frown at the slightest when Sam injected him. "Thank you... Do we need to infect it? He looks so tired" Kei sighed worriedly.

Sam held Hardan's pulse, checked his heart rate, "Well I'm going to infect him... He's dehydrated too. This fool, I don't know when he last drank." Sam muttered as he clicked his tongue.