Have had wrong foods and didn't know pregnant help?

[kellzi]

Have had blue cheese and pate and didn't know pregnant? Not bucket loads, please help as anxious x

Our mums all ate that stuff (and smoked, and drank ) and we're OK. Don't worry, people have done much worse and had healthy babies :)

I wouldn't worry. Most people do that in the early stages when they don't realise they are pregnant, and much worse!

No problem - its only good to avoid as these foods give you a higher chance of some types of food poisoning. If you haven't been ill, then it's not a problem. Congratulations!

You're probably fine. The risk is to do with food poisoning and you would presumably know if you had that by now.

Have you ever in your life heard of anyone dying from eating blue cheese or pate? Calm down, you're fine.

If the cheese was going to have made you sick then you'd have been sick by now.

Pate isn't recommended because of possibility of eating too much vitamin A, but you'd have to eat a lot on a regular basis and probably quite a bit of other retinol rich foods too.

Don't worry, congratulations

I think you would be hard pushed to find anyone who thinks it would be a problem, if that makes you feel better

Thank you all only was on this thread in October six weeks and mc so but anxious, but feel much better now, thank you all x

sympathies. I ate rare meat over christmas and have begged GP for toxoplasmosis test in 3 weeks time (he agreed and said he hopes they will process the blood). Its another thing to worry about, that i've poisoned my baby. If you have no food poisoning symptoms you're probably ok. Listeria is very rare but does have a long incubation period- can be up to 70 days and who has flu symptoms or vomits and thinks back to the pate/cheese they ate 2 months prior? However listeria is extremely rare so try not to worry.

kellzi, I hope you don't mind me leaping onto your thread with a related (and entirely hypothetical ) question. Say for example someone had been really going to town on a Stilton in the last few days, without any ill-effects, and then discovered she was pregnant, would that mean she could continue to trough sample that same stilton without worry? (There's an awful lot left...)

I've eaten bucketloads of Stilton this Christmas and am 20 weeks pg
The man in the cheese shop said it was pasteurised and therefore safe. I was not going another year without Stilton!

You would feel the effects by now if what you'd eaten was bad/off. Relax.

What about sashimi , the Japanese must still eat it right?

www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/are-hard-cheeses-safe-to-eat-during-pregnancy.aspx?CategoryID=54&SubCategoryID=216

Stilton is fine...even unpasteurised. The NHS details are above. Have a read through all the other advice on NHS site too. Helps sort old wives' tales from genuine advice.

Congratulations!

Stilton is not on the NHS list of things to avoid. The NHS website pregnancy section also tells you what sort of sushi is safe to eat.

NB- i recently did a food hygiene course and we covered incubation periods and the difficulty in diagnosing food poisoning due to that.

[jumping around cheering] thanks all!

sorry everyone but food poisoning doesn't always have symptoms within a few days!