remind me what I'm supposed to avoid...

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Newly pregnant with no.2 and not told anyone. I'm at a hen weekend with assault course, hot tub and all the usual food and drink.
I've done the assault course and dived into shockingly cold water - my hands went numb...
Avoided the hot tub.
Had a couple of sips of champagne.
Ate goats cheese.
Avoided runny cheese/ blue cheese.
Drank decaff tea.
Ate loads of chocolate cake.

Which bits matter?
Thanks

Chocolate cake very important - daily levels must be kept up in pregnancy ??

The only thing I would say is you're not meant to eat goats cheese unless its a hard one - but I wouldn't worry too much as a one off. You've done well!

Blue cheese is also okay if a hard cheese like Stilton

According to my Miriam Stoppard book, when pregnant you should avoid 'fish from poisonous waters'.

Some goats cheese (especially soft cheese) may be made with unpasteurised milk, so you need to be a bit wary there. Otherwise you have managed well, especially if you're feeling fit enough to manage an assault course and lots of food!!

savoy
on the whole I would say well done OP

Wow, your baby is going to be born in army combats doing acrobatics from the delivery room rafters at this rate, v impressed!! Only the goats cheese is a potential problem, and even then, you'd be so unlucky - whilst we all stick to the advice, when was the last time you met anyone who'd become sick from eating it?! Enjoy the rest of the hen do! X

It's ok to eat goats cheese if it's cooked. I have it on pizza. Those pizza ovens are pretty damn hot!

I was told that I couldn't have pate, even vegetarian pate. Why! Why!????.

Here's the NHS website where it says cooked goats cheese is ok.

www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2684.aspx?CategoryID=54&SubCategoryID=216

The pate is because of listeria risk, true for both meat and veg. It's not a massive risk, but your immune system is underpowered in pregnancy so you're more likely to get it when someone else wouldn't. It's also a disease that can cross the placenta so can harm baby, unlike, say, salmonella.

Thank you all! Home now and exhausted!

There's something (can't remember what) that there's high levels of in pate that can cause defects. I wa eating pate a few times a week before I found out I was expecting at 7 weeks. I haven't ha any since though so fingers crossed

Pate contains offal which has high levels of vitamin A which can be very damaging to a baby.

That's why no liver allowed in pregnancy either.

That should read meat pate!

Sorry onion chutney crossed posts with you, didn't mean to freak you out or anything. I'm sure it's fine.

It's ok it was too late by the time I realised, already had a scan and all looked good, not much point worrying about it what's done is done!