Wow girls lots of false info from the MWs I see! The nhs has a website telling you what food you can eat. www.nhs.uk/Planners/pregnancycareplanner/pages/Carewithfood.aspx
Gingerlemontea I am pretty sure it says Stilton & natural yoghurt are fine. So is rare beef steak, so long as the outside is cooked properly, but burgers must be well cooked. I have ordered rare-medium rare steak recently. Was gutted when stomach would only let me eat half :(
You can even eat sushi from most uk outlets - not that I fancy my normal favourite lunch choice!! Weird how tastes change. & I have only had mild queasiness, no full on MS like some of you....
BTW my GP said a glass of wine a couple of nights a week with dinner is fine. In fact he asked me who I would rather be the child of - someone who went teetotal or someone who had the odd glass. Very relaxed he was. Thank goodness!!! So GingerLT your couple of beers over the last few weeks should be fine. Ignore the nasty MW who is clearly trying to assert her authority over you and make you worry. Actually my MIl who is a fertility specialist said that drs only want to weed out those who are drinking 1/2 bottle of wine or more every night from before BFP & throughout the next 40 weeks. For the rest of us just being sensible is fine unless you have had previous problems or MCs.
satyricon - I think boys are welcome on here but you might be more comfortable on the boys forum on here. I understand it can get pretty yucky on here!!
Apologies to any RL MWs on here but they are rarely the brightest tools in the box. Are they? Maybe it was just me but my booking in yesterday was a right farce. 1 & 1/2 hours. Yes 90 minutes. To fill in a form I could have done in 15 minutes myself, for her to tell me stuff I already knew from the dr or the NHS website or from MN (thx girls!) & for her to assume I was married to a white man. She filled in my ethnic origins form without referring to me or asking if it was correct!! Ok so my DH has a very Celtic name & is British but REALLY? Should a black MW really just make the assumption my DH is white? I was most annoyed. Just as well he is white or the next time they might get a shock!
There were also 3 of them in the room. 1 was late. 1 was a student too scared to ask me any questions so would ask the MW as if I was not there. And the MW contradicted my GP, did not intro herself & contradicted the NHS website re safe foods to eat/not eat. Very confusing.
She did not tell me until an hour in that she was only covering the usual MW so would not be there next time & that she was called cathy not Claire. She also kept taking phonecalls for the whole 90 mins! Incl whilst taking bloood! Wtf. How rude. She only mentioned late on that she was on call so had to take the call. Wtf. What a joke. Wasted my time.
Useful points: giving me my book, taking blood, doing wee test. She did mention perineum massage but only as there was a page on it but said nothing more. So just scared me as have not had time to read that page yet.
Domestic violence is clearly on a government checklist but tbh she did not establish any trust (for all reasons above) so even if I was suffering I would not have confided in her. There were far too many people in the room & she was on the phone for half the time. Grrrrrrr. I feel sorry for anyone else who saw her. Some would not get the care they need......
On a lighter note I am now 10 weeks so 2 weeks til first scan & (hopefully) able to share our secret with our friends & family! Roll on second trimester.
Good luck girls.