Food restrictions during pregnancy

[AliGrylls]

I just need to get this out of my system.

During my pregnancy I have found it a little much because everytime I order certain things in restaurants people look at me as if to say "should you be eating that?"

In addition, at my ante-natal booking in appointment I was asked "do you drink?" - honestly 2 small glasses of wine per week. I was told I needed to stop completely. The list of foods I was given to avoid seemed endless. Even things I had never thought about (mayonnaise being one).

AIBU for thinking that pregnant women are treated like idiots nowadays and as if they are incapable of working things out for themselves. Why can't they just tell us the risks (which are usually so minute anyway) and then let us make the decisions?

I appreciate that maybe there are some thickos out there but personally I find the attitude that people take towards pregnancy really patronising.

1st pregnancy I followed all the rules. 2nd pregnancy I followed the sensible ones (washing lettuce, no unpasteurised cheese, no bloody meat), 3rd pregnancy I tried to do the same, but mostly forgot. I still think that I would be distraught if I lost a baby because of something I ate though, just because I could not resist for 9 months. As for drinking, I had maybe an inch of wine in a glass maybe once a fortnight. I think that is fine.

With my first baby I was told to eat liver because it was good for iron. Second pregnancy a year later liver was on the forbidden list. A woman in I think Australia had eaten liver at every meal for 9 months and managed to give herself iron poisoning. Obviously then that meant liver was now a danger to all pregnant women

I had my pfb in the US. I swear there was a woman crying at Lamaze class as she'd accidentally swallowed some mouth wash and was convinced the alcohol would give her unborn baby brain damage. (I ate and drank everything I wanted to, and used to scandalise Americans by balancing huge trays of alcohol on my bump when we went to the bar)

This is an ancient thread, but seeing as we're at it, tinpin women are advised to avoid liver because of the risks associated with consuming too much vitamin A. It's pretty sensible advice.

It's bollocks. I had two wines a week when I was pregnant and my baby is fine.

There is a link between talc and ovarian cancer iirc - use cornstarch instead (Johnsons & Johnsons make it now too)

I eat everything I feel like. Pretty much like when I'm not pg but with more chips. So much happier than in my first miserable stressful pregnancy!!

Totally sick of the c rap pg women are peddled.

It's a free country. Eat pâté, liver, brie, swordfish if you must and wash it down with a gallon of claret.

Just try to understand the reasoning behind the guidelines.

Anecdotes about how you ate camembert every day and your baby is fine are almost as pointless as me saying that my great grandfather smoked 60 a day and lived to be 98.