Things you 'mustn't' do when pregnant.

[BummyMummy77]

So this is born from my sil insisting that she will ride her very scatty dressage mare when she's pregnant. Each to their own but I've been told by more than a few ob-gyns and midwives that it's not safe due to the risk of falling and above 12 weeks - placental abruption.

For me, I stopped skiing the minute I found out (gutting, I was in the middle of a month's bloody ski holiday!). I'm 36 and have been trying to conceive for so long, maybe if I was younger I'd have been less paranoid.

What have you ladies given up or not given up?

Not really like that in the UK, but it can be a bit. People wouldn't say anything, but they might give you 'a look'. I actually find though that if it is clear you are just having one people are ok.

I find it ironic in this context that the US likes to think it defends personal freedom. Land of the free (unless you're pregnant) eh?

Land of the free my arse. I've had to fight tooth and nail not to get dragged into a hospital c section and luckily I live in a state where there are actually allowed to be midwives.

So I'm allowed to have a gun (and even kill people with it if they're black and annoying me), ride a motorbike without a helmet on the motorway but a small glass of wine - CALL 911!

Oh, and if I had a hospital birth it's law that the test the baby's meconium for all drugs. Obviously drugs are not something you should take whilst pregnant (apart from the plethora of dangerous shite they keep trying to pump me with) but I do feel like that's a little intrusive!

Rant.

I guess they have lots of lobster here and nice parks so it's not all bad.

It just goes to show how minuscule the risks actually are, if advice could change so much and be inconsistant over time.

It's not glaringly obvious that peanuts, say, cause harm. So it follows that whatever they advise it's only ever a tiny risk anyway.

Maybe the stress of trying to assess all this risk and conflicting advice and worrying about slipping up is at least as harmful of eating a peanut by mistake on your first pregnancy and forgetting to eat it on your second?

I spoke to my hairdresser today and she said the home kits are perfectly save during pregnancy just if you feel your scalp itchy excessively then wash it off straight away

Can i have a fried egg with a runny yolk. I miss that so much but there's so much advice that contradicts itself :/

I guess if it's got a red lion on it - go for it!!

Amazing how many people love runny eggs!

Stom- a normal shop bought uk egg (ie with lion stamp) is fine runny.

I asked my neighbour if she vaccinates her chickens this morning. She laughed at me. :(

Nice yeah we only buy lion ones.... DP Can cook me breakfast tomorrow then :D