AIBU to think 'fuck it' at 38 weeks?

[Secretlifeofme]

I'm 38 weeks pregnant tomorrow. Have gestational diabetes so my list of restricted foods suddenly grew to include sugar and white carbs at 28 weeks when I was diagnosed. I'm getting pretty fed up now !

There's a French market in my city this week. Would I be hugely U to hit the soft cheese and pate? I am doing OK without most of the things I'm not allowed but am really craving lovely stinky Camembert and pate on toast mmmm.... (Drifts off into food coma daydream)

I've also frozen pate before

Might be worth asking if there are any pates that dont contain liver - some of the French ones are a bit more like terrine

not sure they have Waitrose in China..

missed that.

I’d just have a prawn wonton in that case.

The NHS never mentions "white carbs"

She's in China. NHS isn't guiding her.

All I wanted was pate and brie during pregnancy. The first day after I’d had my DTs, my dh arrived laden down with a pate and unpasteurised cheese feast, which was absolutely amazingly magical for me!

I wouldn’t risk it if it were me, sorry.

Thanks everyone! (And hi @VenusStarr lovely to see you here!) I think I'm going to go to the market and ask which cheeses are pasteurized, that's a great idea and means I might get to have some of the little samples! Then get some of the unpasteurized stuff and some pate for the freezer. You're probably right that I shouldn't risk it for the sake of a couple of weeks.

It’s two weeks - I honestly can’t understand why you would want to take such a risk. Your body can handle a mild listeria infection but your unborn baby can’t. And the consequences of it going wrong don’t bear thinking about!

By the way you shouldn’t have any mould ripened soft cheeses such as Brie unless they are cooked - it doesn’t matter whether they are pasteurised or not. This is because bacteria can grow in the mould.

Other pasteurised soft cheese are fine and all (pasteurised or non-pasturised) hard cheeses are fine - so just have one of them.

I only thought pate was a no no due to the vitamin A levels causing birth defects in the early stages of pregnancy?

I wouldn't eat pate no it isn't the vitamin A, but the risk of listeria, which can have devastating effect in the any stage pregnancy, same as the cheese. I would cook any unpasteurised soft cheese or keep it til after baby has arrived.

@Secretlifeofme
Didn’t say there was a connection lmao! I was just saying that I delivered early through a random complication and don’t understand why people invite a risk.