Tell me I'm being pathetic...

[joymaker]

I'm 17 weeks pregnant with DC2 and ate a 120g bag of salt and vinegar kettles crisps while out walking with my DS today ( they were in my bag, one minute they were there the next gone ) I am now feeling really guilty about my lack of discipline and am now having irrational thoughts of having done damage to my baby.

You're being bonkers

You gave absolutely nothing to worry about. If you said you had drunk a bottle of wine and smoked 20 cigarettes then you might want to worry

Oh thanks Fliss

Bless you

And actually, maybe your body needed the salt... you might have just nicely avoided a painful night of leg cramps. Result

Neck a pint of water and quite worrying

ahem quit worrying

Nevercan you're so right, but I was sooooo good when I was pregnant with DS -I would never have done this (i.e given in to this type of mad craving)

What? What's wrong with that? I virtually lived on salt and vingegar crisps in my first trimester. You're being bonkers (I hope!) .

Why be 'good' though? If you crave something then it's your body's way of telling you that you probably 'need' something in that food. Why deny your body something it needs?

Although if you crave chocolate, apparently it's the iron in the cocoa that your body is after so a nice bit of steak would do the job (not half as nice though)

luckysocks I hadn't thought of looking on the positive side
Immaculate i did do just that when I got home.

Flisspaps is that true? I think I need to up my chocolate intake in that case, was just thinking earlier that I'm not getting enough iron. I'll get onto that right now

I'm not sure what was in the gallons of lemonade that I drank in the first trimester contained that I was in need of, or the gallons of ice cold (not no actual ice thanks) full sugar cola that I am now desperate for on a daily basis, but there's got to be something in there.

No idea if it's actually true, but if it's not then it's a fairly common misconception :)

Well that's good enough for me :)

Eh?! What's wrong with salt and vinegar crisps
I pretty much only ate marmite out of the pot with a spoon for the whole pregnancy if it makes you feel any better (cos it was the only thing that didn't make me projectile vom)
I found the whole go with what you crave (or rather avoid everything that makes you sick!) thing quite liberating. Tbh one bottle of wine and a one 20 fag binge during the whole pregnancy wouldn't cause any long term harm. Not that I'm advocating that, but definitely time to stock up on the chocolate though!

thanks for you replies everyone - message received and understood - and all without using the word 'pathetic', you're too kind...

hehe you made me chuckle, sorry you worry just like i do. Alittle of what you fancy does you good :) (i should take my own advice one day)

I know pixie, insane isn't! Good Luck

isn't it

I craved salty foods in the first 20 weeks of pg.

I also read that progesterone makes you excrete salt more than normal, and that although you shouldn't necessarily increase your salt intake with pregnancy, and you should still limit salt within reason, that pregnancy wasn't a particulary good time to follow a very low salt diet.

With that in mind I'd say that you were actually following guidance :)

Another fellow random worrier here too I ate some haggis last week and then had a freak out! I'd love some s&v crisps now you come to mention it...

OMG pregnancy has turned me from an underweight lentil eating, quinoa steaming lettuce lover into a rather more large coke drinking coffee guzzling fairy cake scoffing crisp indulging BEAST.

One packet of crisps is not going to harm you.

I eat much more unhealthily when pg than I would ever do otherwise. It is because it is so so so grim being pregnant.....

I also ate salty things, who says salt is to be forbidden?