What did you accidentally eat while pregnant ?

[CheesysNo1]

I am 7 weeks pregnant and I have been eating fairly healthy. I avoided the Brie and pâté at Christmas and now Iv only gone and scoffed two raw oysters with out even Bloody thinking.

Just wondering has anyone eat anything accidentally during pregnancy? Just to settle my mind.

Is this your first pregnancy by any chance OP

Over four pregnancies I
Ate loads of tinned tuna,
Drank lots of caffeine,
ate loads of peanuts,
I smoked once in first pregnancy,
Ate rare steak,
Had two cocktails mixed at a house party abd mega strong,
Had two large glasses of wine,
Went to a theme park and went on all the rollercoasters and to a fun fair and on loads of fast rides,

The bottom four were before I knew I was pregnant.

I just accidentally ate too much. Of everything. I remember being told that your not eating for two, you're eating for one-and-a-bit. I ate for about four. 🤦🏼‍♀️

A plateful of liver pate on toast, 2 large glasses of wine and 3 cigarettes at a party 3 days before I took the test (about 5 weeks).

Rare steak. Ordered it without thinking, took a mouthful, then had to apologetically ask them to take it back and cremate if.

Soft poached eggs on toast at a Little Chef.

All was fine.

I thought peanuts were good - it’s not eating them that increases the risk of a nut allergy?

For me it was a lot of cocktails at a massive party shortly before I took the test, but my bright & lovely 16 year old came out unscathed (plus the advice from the midwife in the third trimester was to have a glass of red wine with dinner to ‘help you relax’..which also turned out ok).

Ironically I did get awful food poisoning from an organic vegetarian salad & was admitted to hospital at 5 months - thankfully ok in the end but was horrendous & risky (& annoying as was avoiding all sorts of food I loved!).

Yes this is my first pregnancy I’m not too worried about the risks as I’m sure il be fine, i Just had a “doh” moment after I had ate them and was like you daft cow

As for the peanut butter cups, it was someone up thread that said you weren’t allowed them and I was just surprised. I know some women decide to eat peanuts and some don’t.

Guidance now is runny eggs are fine if they have the lion mark (which most of them do). All lion mark eggs are free from salmonella as they're tested.

Well I guess you can never say "all", but FSA say runny eggs are fine as "very low" salmonella risk for Lion Code eggs

When I was very young and pregnant and naive I was craving smoked Salmon and cream cheese. I ate it for a week solid until midwife jokily asked if I had any cravings. I told her and she looked horrified!

Baby was fine 😳

Swordfish. I had couple of fillets at the end of the 1st trimester before I realised it's on the banned list. Spent the next few weeks obsessing about it and feeling massively guilty... Baby was fine, as you'd expect.

With dd1 I went on a night out at about 6 months pg and drank only bottles of ‘Reef’ thinking that it was just fizzy orange. It wasn’t until a little stumble I realised it’s bottled vodka and orange!! I was mortified!

I’m one that’s all for moderation and, although being VERY good and restrained this Xmas, I did have the odd piece of Stilton or sliver of pate on my crackers- much to the horror of MN when I admitted it on another thread!

Before discovering that I was pregnant (this was back in the dark ages of 1982) I consumed a whole bottle of Pomagne (remember that stuff?) whilge I was round at my best friend's house one evening. And throughout my pregnancy,I regularly ate liver pate,although to be fair,there weren't any warnings around in those days that it should be avoided. My Dd was,now 36,was absolutely fine.

I ignored the "rules" in favour of simple common sense. Interestingly the "rules" were different then anyway

@cricketmum84 I ate smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels through my whole pregnancy - they were one of about 4 foods I could eat, so the consultant told me to have at it because I was losing so much weight

Baby is unscathed.

I fell pregnant just before my 23rd birthday, unbeknownst to me (I was on the pill). On my birthday, I went out and drank myself silly and took an 'illicit substance' (something I've not done since, incidentally). I also smoked about 38669 fags (something else I've not done since). I wondered why I felt even shitter than usual the next day. Three weeks and 6 tests later and all was revealed!

DD is now in her 20s, 6ft tall and doing a PhD so thankfully all was well in the end

Pate, rare steak, soft cheese, Prosecco (no more thang a small glass)!

I went on two boozy holidays while I was pregnant with DD. Didn’t find out about her till 12 weeks gestation. After that I was militant about following the “rules”. She’s bright as a button (though mad as a hatter)

I got drunk multiple times before I knew I was pregnant. I was 22 and visiting my cousin at university so we were out every night, drinking spirits, doing shots, etc.

Have a healthy 6yo DS.

Before I knew I was pregnant I drank lots of vodka and went in a hot tub (we were on holiday)

One of the midwives at the hospital told me to drink a pint of Guinness a day from about 8 months pg, then every day while breastfeeding, to 'keep my strength up' 😂

I ate at least 2 pots of hazelnut youghurt everyday until i was roughly 16 weeks, then chernobyl happened and we were told not to eat dairy products from the area i lived in because of the wind carrying the ash cloud from the reactor landing on our fields.

A bottle of Pinot Grigio, also botox injections (for a neurological condition) as DD wasn't planned. She is a bright, healthy, happy and very sporty 8 yr old. No harm done it seems

I ate sushi throughout my pregnancy. After reading up on the (actually minimal) risks I felt they were worth taking!

I did avoid any sushi with tuna though.

Lots of blue veined cheese and pate. This going back to the mid 1990s. You didn’t get the booklet about what not to eat/do (and what you should do) until your 12 week midwife booking in appointment (as it was then).

I had a miscarriage in the morning of the day of my 12 week midwife booking appointment. Never had this information. Imagine my horror about 4 months later, I’m pregnant (got pregnant right away, happy surprise), have the 12 week midwife booking in appointment and receive this booklet. I’d just been for a weekend away where we went to a fair, sampling various cheeses and eating seafood, including oysters! I was so anxious that whole pregnancy and obsessively checking everything (interesting to find out ice cream contained raw egg)

I’m not British, moved here early 1990s. No internet and unless you went into a newsagent, not likely to be seeing pregnancy magazines (which were also pricey). Where I grew up, blue veined cheese, even Brie, pate, raw oysters etc are not common at that time so never heard any of this. No friends with children here at that time and followed the social norm of not telling people until after 12 weeks - except MIL. Not sure if she didn’t know herself, but she never gave me any advice about this either. Of course, to this day, after I found out about all these things not to eat, I wonder if it were those things I ate, or when I ran to catch my morning train, those drinks I had before I knew I was pregnant.