Had no idea I wasn't allowed to eat...

[MissMoodyMoo]

So I had no idea I wasn't allowed to eat hot dogs 😱 and I had one at the local firework display and now I'm kind of freaking out? Should I let my midwife know?

I wouldn’t worry. I totally missed the memo on rare meat for the first few months of my pregnancy. I don’t know how it didn’t occur to me, or how I missed it on NHS guidance but somehow I did. Luckily I don’t eat red meat very much so I wasn’t exactly stuffing myself with the stuff but I still felt like a right idiot.

I wasn’t aware hotdogs were on the NHS list of what to avoid? What makes you think that you can’t eat hot dogs OP?

Im sure these threads are just a wind up?! Seriously no offence but get a grip it's a blinking hot dog!! You've already consumed it what's your midwife going to do?!

I ate whatever the fuck I felt like when I was pregnant. I was pretty sure the all-but-negligible "risk" of these foods was less than the damage caused by winding myself up about eating and being paranoid.

Hot dogs are perfectly fine, who said they weren't?

Please stop spreading silly myths about things that are simply not true!

Firstly were they actually hot dogs or just sausages? Secondly were they cooked through? If they were cooked through sausages I don’t think that you have any cause for concern.

I only ate 3 dulano frankfurters??

So frankfurters are fine to eat cause I ate 3 only

Lol true wats midwife going to do phone the hotdog police

I had no idea about the hotdogs!

I ate a med-rare (more on the rare side) chateaubriand before xmas.

It was delicious but I threw it up 6 hours later.

I also have eaten my fair share of proscuttio, soft cheeses and at xmas some salmon pate.

Dont worry. I am sure your body will tell you if it doesnt like it.

As long as it was cooked you should be ok! They say lunch meat is ok if you microwave it

No midwifes are busy please do not waste their time with this!

ZOMBIE!

@Echobelly

If you had no idea you weren't supposed to eat something, then everyone has gone years eating it while pregnant without anything terrible happening, and it's totally fine to eat it.

I bet French women don't stop eating unpasteurised cheese and Japanese women don't stop eating sushi when they're pregnant and they're fine too.

Actually French people are also advised to avoid raw/ unpasteurised cheese, and Japanese people advised to avoid eating too much fish with a high mercury content such as shark, and raw shellfish.

Not sure why you are presuming that this advice is nonsense - the bacteria in these foods can and do cause birth issues. Obviously not every time, but it's worth avoiding the risk if you know about it.

However, a properly cooked hotdog is probably fine!

Nobody told me and I ate them all the way through both my pregnancies! If the risk is listeria, it would have been killed off if the hotdog was cooked properly.

Camembert itself isn't the problem, it's unpasteurised cheese. I buy a Camembert that's pasteurised, more soft cheeses are pasteurised that you think!

Oddest zombie thread ever

This happens a lot on the pregnancy boards, people with bump up an old thread rather than just starting a new one. Odd.

ZOMBIE THREAD

The baby is probably 3 years old now.

If meat hot dogs pose a Listeria risk (if), then I can recommend the tofu ones in Waitrose vegan section. Delicious, you genuinely wouldn't know. And presumably they are not a Listeria risk!

OP.....come back and tell us if you survived the last 4 years after your hot dog faux pais 😆

Don't give it a thought. I think eating what you'd normally eat is healthier overall than all this obsessing about eating the wrong supermarket sandwich.

Omg, what an incredibly random zombie. That'll teach me to RTFT.

I remember being told about hotdogs too! It's done now and you're not feeling poorly so you're fine. It's not on the NHS guidelines but my midwife mentioned it to me and as previous posts have said it's if they aren't cooked properly, there's a higher risk of that with hotdogs apparently. I wouldn't worry though, you'd know if you were ill by now. Tell her if you need reassuring of course.