I miss cheese...

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...has anyone actually brazenly eaten stilton, brie, shropshire blue (am actually salivating now...) or similar forbidden cheese during their pregnancy in spite of all the 'risks' and lived to tell the tale...? Has anyone eaten such forbidden cheese (specifically) and been very ill or had pregnancy problems as a result...?

I miss cheese. A lot. I know it's not really for long, but still.....

Don't do it. Noooooooooooo
Lol.
I totally want wine but I know I will spend weeks regretting it and if anything happened I would blame myself.

I've eaten brie, from the supermarket - not the yummy gooey stuff I usually love. Pretty much all supermarket cheeses are made with pasteurised milk.

I've also eaten pasta with dolcelatte sauce, deep fried camembert and mushrooms stuffed with stilton - i'm rightly or wrongly working on the theory that if its cooked any nasties will be killed in cooking process.

I LOVE cheese!

I drank wine, I avoided everything else including cheese and pate.

you can cook it if you'd like a taste without so much risk. Pasteurisation involves brief heating to 70'C, & pasteurised mile products are fine, so if for instance you make cheese sauce, then cook in oven at 200'C for 25mins, it ought to thoroughly kill listeria and other bacteria, and therefore be fine. That is my plan for the wedge of blue cheese in our fridge anyway. My mw was quite confusing when I asked her specifically for advice on this and said she's just repeating the advice they're given parrot fashion (I am paraphrasing, but I am a scientist by training, and being given crap 'you shouldn't because I say so' advice irks).
There is an article by Zoe Williams which was in the grauniad some years ago listed somewhere on MN about some of these things, although she seems a little obsessed by not being 'allowed' to drink imho.

Yes. Cheese and wine and shellfish and sushi and prosciutto.

Yes I had a brie sandwich when I was about 7 months. The temptation got too much!

I then went home and read why I shouldn't have eaten it...I worried for days!

I eat brie, chorizo, cured ham, smoked salmon. I reckon they are pretty safe if from a reliable source. I even have my two glasses of wine a week. The only thing I am strict about is rare meat and runny eggs.

Maybe the blue cheeses are a bit more risky? Overall though, I think the what you can't eat during pregnancy guidelines are a bit puritanical.

I ate cheese all the way through both pregnancies and they've managed to make it to 14 and 1/2 and 11 without any problems.

most commercial cheeses are pasturised, and you are more likely to get listeria from a hotdog or a salad.

Eat the cheese. Someone please post that Guardian link?

I also ate prawns, peanuts, pate and red meat cooked medium...Bad Mummy!

I'm eating everything. Think it's time people got a grip on this pregnancy food hysteria, in the nicest possible way.

By my third pregnancy I had forgotten what you should and shouldn't eat so I ate pretty much everything! I bought cheese made from pasteurised milk (like Cornish brie) from the supermarket.

Well said Kitty

Currently 37 weeks into a pregnancy during which I've eaten pate, blue and other unpasteurised cheeses, cured meats, rare beef, peanuts, shellfish and drank the occasional glass of wine. They were all yummy and didn't affect me at all. I trust the sources of my food normally and don't see why that should change just because I am pregnant.

I have craved - and therefore eaten - sushi. Midwife just left and there is still a heartbeat in there.

Oh, I'm still eating medium rare steak and parma ham and 'deli' meats too. Totally agree Luna, I trust my food sources:)

i decided a few weeks ago that I was going to have a brie and ham toastie at a tea shop, oh they do the most amazing ones, and I had DREAMED about how amazing it was going to be......to find, after a quarter, I had gone off brie.

I have eaten/done lots of things that are probably considered extremely bad and I should be locked up for, but the baby is happy and healthy (and the good size!) and thats cos I am......everything in moderation, just like before

I had pasturised goats cheese and was sick for over 12 hours - had to go into hospital and get an anti sickness shot as in the end I hadn't eaten or drank anything for 24 hours. I was sick so violently I pulled all the muscles in my chest/abdomen and was in pain and couldn't move for days.

So its not necessarily just what is said to be bad or risky but what your body is able to digest, which will vary from person to person. if you have had any problems with indigestion or bad heartburn I would avoid cheese.

I miss runny eggs.
I don't eat anything on the banned list. I knew someone whose baby was stillborn at 36 weeks and the doctors thought it may have been listeria. The guidelines are there because the experts think there may be a risk ,even if it is a tiny one, they're not there just to 'control' pregnant women's behaviour. It's not a big ask IMO, avoiding a few foods for a few months, why take the risk.

I had all of the above and rinsed it down with a bit of red wine.

i miss all cheese... since being pregnant it gives me migraines... what i wouldnt give for edam.

Seeing as you can get listeria from salads and hotdogs.... it might be easier to list food that supposedly pregnant women can eat!

the only thing I've been avoiding is Pate because of the vitamin A, because I normally eat a ton of that every day, and I wouldn't want to risk that.
I've eaten everything else, and I'm fine.

I did catch salmonella in november, though, but that was from fancy ice cream, it wasn't even soft scoop or anything...

I ate some of the wrong things on occasion... pasteurised brie was in Sainsbury's.