Pregnancy advice you don't believe in?

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We all know what the current 'rules' on pregnancy are, although some of them are as clear as mud... Just wondering which ones you totally don't believe or understand?

Personally I have continued to enjoy going in the hot tub after swimming and so far, no boiled baby!!

Also don't get why we aren't meant to wear underwired bras... What harm can a wire do?

And don't get me started on the 200mg caffeine limit which our mothers never had to adhere to... Although I am grudgingly doing that one just in case.

Anything else?

Erm. How do you know that baby isn't boiled?

*the baby

I hope you never get mastitis, and it's not boiled babies that are the problem, if you don't understand why you are told some things google and chose for yourself, you'll not get much sympathy if you suffer any of the issues that the advice helps avoid though.

Isn't the hot tub thing due to your blood pressure rather than boiling your baby? I love hot baths and have naturally low blood pressure. The two do not mix and I sometimes feel dizzy getting out the bath.

I'm not sure why we are advised to wear non wired bras but my boobs have gotten so big and hurt so much I prefer the non wired ones.

I don't think I've heard any pregnancy advice (from professionals) that I thought was stupid. Although I never agreed with avoiding peanuts but that isn't the advice any more.

I wear underwires throughout pregnancy and bfing. As long as the bra fits, it's fine. Tbh non underwired just don't offer support, and I got mastitis just as much with dd (wore non nderwired bras religiously and have the saggy boobs to prove it) as ds (underwired all the way). For hottubs, I'd say it's more likely because you might feel dizzy. Not a fan of hot tubs but I do like my baths on the hot side. I also eat brie and runny eggs. The advice is a guideline, not a law. It's up to you what you feel comfortable with.

Well...

Oh, I can't be bothered.

Baby sleeping in your room for the first 6 months to reduce the chance of cot death. How is my baby being in the room next door to me with a one inch thick wall between us going to make a difference?! Quite frankly having the baby being in my room that long will drive me insane. And not Cos of the baby I know why my dh will be like. Awake at every move. Being awake cos they aren't moving/squeaking/snuffling. Don't get me wrong baby will be in our room to start. But 6 months?!

Just realised that really isn't pregnancy advice but you do get told it in pregnancy

The underwire thing is because an incorrectly fitted bra can damage the milk ducts as the wire presses into the breast tissue. Fitted correctly it won't. The guidelines will have to assume that your bra is not correctly fitted as so many women wear completely the wrong size.

The hot tub really has nothing to do with 'boiling' your baby and frankly that you think it does shows you should do some more research. Actually, you can apply that to your first statement as well.

Lots of advise will seem a little over the top but they have to be aimed at the people that need the most guidance.

hahahaha have fun with all the traipsing back and forwards. ;)

There is a theory that babies are protected by being in room with their parents because the breathing noises prevent them from sleeping too deeply. Or something like that. I'm sure it's readily Google-able.

Melliebobs, the CO2 you exhale helps the baby regulate its breathing; also it can hear you.

Well, pregnancy advice (official stuff) generally becomes pregnancy advice because of medical and scientific research.

So you can say you don't understand it but you can't really say you don't believe in it. Because it's true.

Clearly, you don't understand it. Avoiding hot tubs is nothing to do with boiling the baby and everything to do with the fact that raising your core body temperature in pregnancy has been shown to have an increased risk of birth defects and pregnancy loss.

And keeping the baby in your bedroom with you is less to do about how you react to them and more to do with how they react to you - there are theories about why it is protective (temperature, natural breathing rhythms, bodily contact, more frequent feeding, shallower sleep, and so on) but the fact is less babies die that way. Research has shown this. No matter how thin your walls are.

It is okay to assess the facts and decide what risks you're willing to take and what you're not. But first you have to have the facts...

bigbad puts it very clearly unlike me

Also MissCoffee

..also quicker to get to when they start screaming :0)

My LO slept in bed with me and DP - some say it's a good thing, some say it's a bad thing. Worked for us 3.

Do your reasearch and then make an informed choice.

The advice we give is for a reason.

melliebobs - well, read up on it then if you don't understand.

There IS a reason for it, so don't fob off something you don't understnad.

Our dept. of health has added hummus to the list of things you shouldn't eat to avoid listeria. I was gutted as I love the stuff and I've been good and not had any but really, whoever heard of somebody being hurt by hummus? It's about as inoffensive as you get.

Obliviously - because I heard the heartbeat this week!

And it was meant to be a jokey thread ffs because this attitude of needing to wrap yourself in cotton wool whilst pg is what I'm so tired of. Don't think it was quite received in that spirit!!! Just thought there might be someone else who felt the same!

The caffeine limit is there because over that amount was shown to increase the risk of miscarriage. That doesn't mean that everyone who has over 200 mg will have a miscarriage but they are more likely to. There are very probably women in our mothers peer group who would not have miscarried had this been advice at the time.

What?? Houmous??

Aw, man

Going to add the hummus thing to my list anyway - don't see how that could do any harm unless the chickpeas were soaked in arsenic first

Why would hummous be on the list?

Bet it's something to do with Vit A...

Nope - not vit A in chickpeas...

NHS site recommends it as a healthy pregnancy snack