The due in September crew head into the second trimester! :) (Thread 6)

[Treaclepie19]

Hi all! Stats sheet here :)

A lot of supermarket soft cheese is pasteurised. Check labels: you might be missing out unnecessarily!
I'm avoiding:
Liver
Alcohol
Unpasteurised dairy
More than one coffee a day
Not yet decided on sushi as haven't read up on it.

I've had food poisoning once ever. From a pre-packed tuna salad in 2002. I eat a lot of high risk foods normally, I just avoid prepackaged salads!

I wasn't saying that it was banned, i was saying someone else had said they were abstaining.
Personally I think the guidelines are to strict.

what you sound like me! At least we're past the early stage so babies less vulnerable to a lot of things, not everything granted. It is also important that we don't all get too stressed though as well! As someone else said, it's enough to drive us mad.

Still not heard from midwives about 16 week appointment. Fortunately, that should fall in the Easter Hols as I'll be 15 weeks this Friday. I know we're entitled to the time off but I still need to arrange cover if it's in term time!

Also having only one tea a day. No alcohol except a 3rd of a flute of bubbles on my birthday last week.

The fa go different countries have different guidelines too proves they're not really sure what to say to avoid! Makes you wonder how people have been having children for years upon years with the restrictions there are!

The food and drink rules are so confusing sometimes and apparently lots of them are out of date anyway - helpful! Best to either follow them to the letter OR have a very good read up on it including how reliable and extensive the research really is and then make your own mind up.

Had tiny bit of spotting last night. So much I hardly noticed it. Had bleeding exactly the same time with DD (13 weeks) and my mum bled then in both her pregnancies. Very weird. Unfortunately every time I bleed or have any bump or trip up after first trimester I'm supposed to go for an anti-d injection as rhesus negative. Anyone else have this?

Worry the book Expecting Better talks about the different rules in different countries. It is really eye opening.

worry the list you put up above had butter on it - are we supposed to be avoiding butter? Eek! X

sauv that's the list of anything that might have Listeria in it. I gather the risk is very very low for butter!

Tbh anything that's touched something with listeria might have listeria. Also I might get knocked down by a bus this afternoon. I'm happy to take some very unlikely risks. Obviously its No guarantee, but as this is pregnancy 4 for me with no food related disasters yet, I'm happy with my choices. Preg no 2 was a mc, and although probably not related to anything I did or didn't do, I was exposed to hand foot and mouth (ds1 had it when I was about 6 weeks) and did have a hair straightening thing around the same time. Who knows?

Butter! I eat loads. And we keep it out of the fridge.

Sorry about the spotting shin though you are being very calm about it. Annoying about having to get the anti-d. I've only had spotting twice, once with the mc, and also a few days after some rather vigorous shagging while 6 months of with ds2!

Bloody hell! The powers that be really don't want us eating anything do they! As long as coco pops don't appear on a list anywhere, I'll be alright

Shinjuku I'm A neg so in the same position. My mw said that at my 16 week appt they would do a blood test to see if baby is neg or pos. God knows how they can tell! If neg I won't need injections and they'll double check once baby's born. MW said they've been doing this for a couple of yrs and not had any incidents where they were wrong. V likely that baby will be pos anyway though as DP is.

Also in the 'relaxed' camp about food - eating eggs from MIL's (unvaccinated) hens for example. They are free range, healthy, fed only the top food. The risks with commercial hens come largely from high density of birds, poor hygiene, food etc.

Having said that I am veggie, rarely drink (and am still too nauseated to consider alcohol anyway), not fussed about blue cheese, mostly cook from scratch at home, etc, so I don't encounter many of the things we're supposed to avoid anyway, which makes things easier.

I'd strongly recommend reading up on the NHS list and double checking the research for risk levels. Life is a calculated risk, every time we get in a car, cross the street, go up and down stairs, encounter other people (infection risk). You just have to get on with it and make informed decisions that you can live with, personally.

I had a tint bit spotting after intercourse but midwife said that's ok. Can anyone tell me if it's ok to eat pre packed sliced ham? I defiantly read in one of my books that you can't have it do I've been avoiding it, but a pregnant friend said it's ok? Would love some right now If I can eat it!

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Amus my sister an obstetrician said it's okay and she's got 7 kids and has ate it with her pregnancies she only avoids alcohol lots of caffeine pate liver and raw beef

(She doesn't eat sea food etc regardless)

amus unless it's changed the US advises against packaged meat but the UK doesn't!

Oh that's interesting Jessica. I don't think they do that here so you always have to go for the injections. The spotting was ridiculously minimal, like two pin pricks of blood, whereas first pregnancy there was rather a lot and all was still totally fine so trying to remain calm! But I did find it slightly difficult not to keep googling 'risk of miscarriage at thirteen weeks after scan' etc last night!

Us - FDA only advise against eating deli meats cold not packaged meats.

If you followed every guideline you would never eat and this is coming from a person who restrict their eating as much as possible anyway. I've started eating meal deals from boots my consultant thinks that's fine so I will continue, its better than my 1000 calories a day and the risks low.

What I want to know more than anything is WHY during pregnancy do I suddenly develop an obsession with the foods listed on the NHS website. Granted I do love rare steak and pate but can happily go for weeks or even months without them! I'm literally craving them every day during pregnancy along with Coke (I know can have this but I'd quite happily drink bucket loads) and brie!

Haha Shinjuku I only eat pate about twice a year but of course now I'm dying to have some on some french bread.

I'm not missing alcohol. I go right off it when I'm pregnant.

I ate pate on Christmas Day and New year I never ever eat it but I also didn't know I was preg but why the year when I am pregnant do I decide to eat it!?

I'm the same Shin, there's been a piece of Brie in the fridge all week taunting me!

Shinjuku I'm obsessed with coke too! I had a load of pate in the fridge when I got my bfp, I really am a pate addict! :(

Does anyone know if Haggis is ok? Has it got liver in? I really have been craving it, strangely!