Is it safe to eat fresh pineapple in early pregnancy?

[jenny132]

Hi - I'm 10 wks and cant get enough of fresh pineapple... but then I read that it's recommended to bring on labour. Does it make a difference really early on in the pregnancy? It wont cause uterine contractions and bring on a miscarriage will it??

Sorry if this is a really stupid question!

i'll be interested to see replies

am craving pineapple juice and have had a small glass a day, but i also have something lurking in the back of my head that i shouldn't...

ugh i'm on a pack a day - really helps the MS. would be interested to know also...

The chances of eating pineapple haing any adverse effects are improbable. M/S is not boruight about generally by uterine contractions, even if they were I find if hard to believe that it owuld be any where near developed enough to have an effect.

Pineapple is recommended in pregnany for heartbearn and indigestion, in fact my book recommends it throughout pregnancy.

Sorry IMHO - stupid question!!! First baby??!! (ps sorry if that came across at all patronising - it really wasn't meant to)

Sophus - I hope we're not related

eating 7 fresh pineapples are said to contain enough of an enzyme that can help trigger labour at the end of pregnancy !

i honestly dont think you should worry about eating it at this stage....

no such thing as a stupid question
just stupid answers

don't be so harsh, we were all first timers at one point!

7......lulu, I always wondered how much you'd have to eat. Not sure I could eat 7 no matter how much I wanted to go into Labour........

Eat and Enjoy jenny123, and congrats on your pg'cy.

I'd be carefull later in your pregnancy though. Someone I know had a mad craving for pineapple when she was pregnant and finally ended up giving birth at 34 weeks... She hadn't heard of the connection, but when she read about it afterwards, she thought maybe all that pineapple hadn't been such a good thing after all.

Phew! Thanks guys

Not at all a stupid question...for example, I precisely remember it being written on the raspberry leaf tea pack that it's not recommended for pregnant women before howevermany weeks. I also remember my mw telling me that raspberry leaf tea only has the desired effect if it's consumed in very concentrated and very large quantities. So who knows with these things...
Sorry if I?ve only added to your confusion !