to want to be allowed to make by own choices about what to eat and drink

[witchandchips]

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no YANBU!

Handmaid's Tale springs to mind.

You are being terribly terribly unreasonable. How dare you think that you should eat or drink anything that hasn't been vetted by the health police or sterilised is beyond me

(presuming this is a follow on from the ridiculous alcohol thread and you get that I'm joking!!!!)

What's Handmaids Tale?

i will answer the op so long as she promises not to use my post for research puposes or post it on her myspace

handmaid's tail is brilliant brilliant book written in the mid 80s by Margeraet Atwood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid's_Tale see the wikipedia entry

LOL

i very hope you are not eating more than your allowed celery stick for the day

YABU! Don't you know that from the moment you conceive, nay before that ...even when you are thinking about conceiving,or even earlier... as soon as you become sexually active, you are no more than a womb on legs.

Which is why your brain is no longer required or capable of making decisions for yourself.

tsk!

sorry cocked up
see here

Haven't you heard that there's a risk that the stringy bits from celery can bypass your oesophagus and wrap themselves round your placenta cutting off vital nutrients to your lo.....

there's this horrid bit in "what to expect when your expecting" when it suggests that eating a chocolate brownie is actually depriving your lo of the nutrients that it needs to grow! . logic as a pg mum you have to stick to 2500 calories a day and you can't waste them on "empty" food like brownies

ooh- thank you, I wonder how I've managed to miss that, being the ridiculous avid reader that I am! Will order it for my hols coming up!

It's good, but depressing.

Love Handmaid's Tale - was my first taste of Margaret Atwood. But, yes, tis grim too.

I fucking hate What To Expect...!!!

Read Jodi Picoult last year, do like a good weep anyway!

oryz and crake is grimmer though, least in the handmaid tail you know that that Gilead disolves

but witch if the brownies contain dark choc then they have iron...v good for mother + baby

Do you not know that iron can only be absorbed you are not enjoying what you eat?

Jodi Picoult - not familiar with that one. Is it good?

d'oh! silly me

www.jodipicoult.com/

Harrowing mostly, but completely absorbing, couldn't put them down.

Will have a look at bookshop today. Thanks