Most Ridiculous don't do's/ haves you've heard.

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So since falling pregnant there's been a few stupid- you can't eat that because of this and you can't do that anymore. Just thought I'd hear some other ones.

A friend told me yesterday not to rub or massage my bump as it will bring on early labour.
How do I apply my stretch mark cream?!

I was doing major renovation work on a house during the third trimester - every time someone delivered a load of tiles/building material they'refuse to let me lift it, but what did they think I'd do to move it once they left?

Also kept up at the gym on cross trainer till 37 weeks, then swam until 40+1 weeks, baby is fine.

My auntie tells me off if she sees me lifting tins of food because "they're too heavy".

She watches me lifting two-year-old DS without comment

I remember googling "redbull in pregnancy" and getting this hysterical discussion board thread (Not MN!) where all the posters were attacking the OP for even thinking of taking a sip of this evil liquid.

"That can't be right" I thought and sure enough, on comparing the amount of caffeine in a can against the amount of caffeine considered safe by the NHS, discovered you can have 2 whole cans a day.

When I brought this up with a work colleague as an example of crazy moral panic around pregnant women she got really sniffy and said "We'll I suppose it depends if you could live with yourself if anything happened"

I did explain that current NHS guidance was on my side but apparently its not good enough to just follow guidance, because guidance changes and it might be considered dangerous in the future

utoipian99 - we were building a massive extension when I was pregnant with #1 and DH was very torn between the 'you can't lift that' and 'you are pregnant not ill' camps. The funniest example was one day towards the end of the pregnancy when our electrician popped round to deliver a few very small boxes of electrical components. I went to take them and DH dived gallantly in front and told me to go and put my feet up. Later that same day he was struggling to change the wheel on our old trailer to make way for a garden delivery the next day. The trailer was on rubble so the jack wasn't working. I was duly summoned and ended up sticking a plank of wood under the trailer and levering it up by hand so he could change it. It was this moment the electrician returned to say one of the boxes he'd left was for one of his other jobs. DH didn't live that one down in a hurry.

Best one i heard was about fake tan... I use fake tan but not all the time and I was told that I cannot use fake tan whatsoever... I laughed in the persons face.
Also, being told I was less than 12 weeks and that I shouldn't eat any extra calories and should stick to minimal meals by a girl who wasn't pregnant, or a mother or had any medical background... I was actually 16 weeks and I told her to eff off.

I get arsey when people lecture me on specific foods of what you can and can't eat.. My mom ate everything on the banned lists for me and my siblings and we was all fine.
Smoking and caffeine - frowned upon. Smoking increases the risk of low birth weight (if you research its a few ounces to a lb and half difference) and caffeine makes your baby hyper, doubt that very much so judging by my best friends son - she drank red bull and lucozade nonstop whilst pregnant, he's as good as gold and is relatively calm and quiet.

It differs I guess!

Hearing 'X did/didn't do/ate in pregnancy and baby was fine, so therefore it's safe' does annoy me. A case study of one is not exactly good evidence. My MIL did this lots with expressos, smoking and unpasteurised cheese.