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Pregnancy - what will I be missing at Xmas?

16 replies

BeanBag7 · 09/09/2019 14:09

It's only September and I'm already distraught at the thought of not having rare roast beef or baked camembert on Christmas day SadWink
I did just check and at least I can still have smoked salmon!
What else will pregnant folks or those on restricted diets be sorry to miss out on this festive season?

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PurpleDaisies · 09/09/2019 14:12

You can eat baked Camembert. It just needs to be hot enough. Check the nhs websitez

crazycatbaby · 09/09/2019 14:14

Pate 😭and soft blue cheese

DaisyMay25 · 09/09/2019 14:21

You can have soft cheese if they're cooked through, so enjoy your baked Camembert!

For me it's Brie (I like it cold and just cut massive pieces off) and a snowball, I'm secretly hoping baby comes slightly early!

BeanBag7 · 09/09/2019 14:27

Oh that's good to know, thanks!

Also alcohol of course! I dont drink much but do like a prosecco or a baileys at Christmas

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PurpleDaisies · 09/09/2019 14:30

One glass of Prosecco or baileys won’t cause any issue either. Smile

Sweetooth92 · 09/09/2019 14:35

All the pate, fizz & Brie. Plus I was so full of baby I couldn’t eat a full Christmas dinner or the Christmas Eve pub breakfast 💔
This will be Christmas 2 out of 3 I’m pregnant-DS due New Year’s Eve. I’m desperately hoping he’s a little early so I can indulge this Christmas. His brother was due on 30th December & didn’t arrive until jan 10th so not holding out much hope.

violetdelights · 09/09/2019 18:20

Being at my work Christmas party and feeling more and more sober as I watched everyone else getting drunk. Bit of a bummer. I made up for it the year after! 🥳

Pixie2015 · 09/09/2019 18:32

Just enjoy your Christmas and enjoy eating and drinking what you can slowly next year will be very different 😉

hormonesorDHbeingadick · 09/09/2019 19:04

Brie. I was pregnant last year and new born has cmpa so no lovely cheese for me. All the lovely indulgent food contains dairy.

BeanBag7 · 09/09/2019 20:14

@Pixie2015 I have one child already but wasn't pregnant over Christmas last time. She will be 3 this year so will be really fun!

I'll only be 6.5 month pregnant so hoping I wont be too big to enjoy a nice big Christmas dinner!

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BiddyPop · 11/09/2019 15:23

I had the smoked salmon, and also prawns (those are shellfish but mobile ones - its the ones like mussels stuck in a single location that my GP was concerned about - she reckoned that lobster, crab and prawns were all ok).

Hard cheese, as long as it was pasteurized, was also ok. So I just had to get tasty hard cheeses rather than runny brie or stinky stilton. (I didn't "do" baked soft cheeses then, but would know better now).

Salads from a factory and kept stored properly (chilled) were ok but not from a deli counter - so a pot of M&S coleslaw in its sealed tub to eat at home was ok, to make a nice ham and coleslaw sandwich. But I would not get a ham and coleslaw sandwich from a deli counter in a shop. Similar for mayonnaise etc - pasteurised ok (eg. jar of Hellmanns) but unpasteurised not ok (like homemade salad cream using a raw egg yolk).

No eggs benedict for Christmas morning breakfast because of no runny egg yolks. But a croissant with bacon and grated cheese grilled to bubbling was perfectly fine. As was the OJ, coffee (well, the 1st cup anyway), tea, fresh fruit (just properly washed)….etc.

I had the full Christmas dinner - roast turkey, potatoes, veg, pudding for dessert etc. In fact, as DD had finally dropped, I actually had room for seconds!! (I later realised that this was a BIG mistake as I threw it all up in active labour during the night on 25th!).

mrsed1987 · 11/09/2019 22:13

i was 8 months pregnant last xmas and had some non alcoholic bucks fizz lol

NoWordForFluffy · 11/09/2019 22:46

I was pregnant for two consecutive Christmases! Pate was about all I missed really. I had a drink with DD as I was second trimester, but couldn't with DS as I was still first trimester. Only one, but I enjoyed it.

There's very little you have to avoid really.

hormonesorDHbeingadick · 12/09/2019 09:07

BiddyPop lion stamped runny eggs and silton are fine.

Rachelover60 · 12/09/2019 09:09

...what will I be missing at Xmas?

Mulled wine.

Tobebythesea · 12/09/2019 23:58

I discovered I was pregnant last Christmas in mid December. I’m a massive Christmas fan so I’d started early and had had a mulled wine in November so didn’t feel I’d missed out as much. What I did miss on Christmas Day was smelly blue cheese, pate and alcohol.

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