Scaremongering pregnant women or serious health concern?

[ExhaustedMamasita]

According to the latest news, there?s even more stuff we have to avoid to ensure a healthy pregnancy! www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22775024

I don?t drink alcohol or caffeine, don?t smoke and avoid all the major food no nos but apparently that?s not enough. Shower gel, cosmetics, tinned food or food wrapped in plastic, new furniture, non-stick pans and loads MORE ? are all bad for pregnant women!! Not quite what to think. Is this going too far or are we best off making a conscious effort to avoid yet more food and lifestyle products?? Thoughts.

Surely if its all harmful to babies it is also not so good for everyone else? So why not instead of scaremongering, they actually did something to address all those problems at the core and not tell pregnant women to avoid things? At this rate we'll be told not to go out as air is not good for the baby... Surprised it does not mention hormones in tap water...

The message from the original scientific impact paper is not that those things are bad for pregnant women.

This sentence really stood out to me in that article:

potential but unproven risks

The full scientific impact paper is available here and it provides a balanced overview of the potential but unproven risks to enable women to make their own lifestyle choices with regards to chemical exposure.

The message from the original scientific impact paper is not that those things are bad for pregnant women.

This sentence really stood out to me in that article:

potential but unproven risks

The full scientific impact paper is available here and it provides a balanced overview of the potential but unproven risks to enable women to make their own lifestyle choices with regards to chemical exposure.

The article struck me as vague, slightly flaky and lacking in any real information to be honest! As mentioned in the article there isn't any REAL advice, so why print it at all. People will just get worried about it! It is the world gone a little bit mad! :(

To be honest If these are real risks I've already broken my baby. Maybe that's why it's getting its own back by kicking my bladder.....

Ridiculous, until proven, they shouldn't be allowed to scaremonger like this - that's what happened with the MMR jab...

im going to lock myself in my bedroom and be drip fed for the next five months