{"id":171660,"date":"2022-12-16T15:22:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T15:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=171660"},"modified":"2022-12-18T04:21:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T04:21:22","slug":"going-on-stage-while-nine-months-pregnant-is-not-an-issue-for-addawiyah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=171660","title":{"rendered":"Going on stage while nine months pregnant is not an issue for Addawiyah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Nabilah Mahadzir<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 16 December 2022: \u0153Proud of myself that I can make it to my convocation while heavily pregnant with my first baby. I am relieved the baby was not born before my convocation or else I would not have been able to attend it,\u009d said Rabiatul Addawiyah binti Aminuddin in her interview with IIUMToday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rabiatul Addawiyah, a graduate from the Kulliyyah of Pharmacy, earned a thunderous applause from the crowd when she received her bachelor&#8217;s degree while nine months pregnant, at&nbsp;the eighth session of the 38th IIUM Convocation Ceremony on 7 December.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addawiyah described her journey during her bachelor&#8217;s degree programme at IIUM as full of surprises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She suffered from morning sickness, nausea, and fatigue while pregnant, and almost pass out during her posting despite having taken breakfast, yet she still managed to fast and never miss a posting, lesson, or presentation during that period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Addawiyah, studying Pharmacy was difficult&nbsp;as she was the Student Union&#8217;s Assistant Treasurer II in her third and fourth years, making her juggled between study and student activism role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153In the first year of study, I never thought about finishing my degree while being married and attending my convocation while counting the days for our first son to come into our life,\u009d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite Addawiyah&#8217;s struggles, she shared that her mother has become her source of motivation since her father passed away when she was seven years old.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153My mother has sacrificed a lot while supporting me as a single mother and I hope she is proud of my achievements throughout my study,\u009d she emphasised.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added that her husband, Muhammad Darwiis bin Mohammad Aris, from the Kulliyyah of Nursing, has also been a source of support for her during the challenging times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were both spotted celebrating their success at the graduation ceremony.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nabilah Mahadzir GOMBAK, 16 December 2022: \u0153Proud of myself that I can make it to my convocation while heavily pregnant with my first baby.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7508,"featured_media":171661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,11,8,3,24],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[11247,91,469,156,7508],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_20221208_225232_256.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171660"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171969,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171660\/revisions\/171969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}