Ate incredibly out of date flour - reassurance please!!

[knopeout]

Help! I made pancakes this evening and thought they tasted a little off (but stale, not very sweet) and have now discovered I used flour that went off YEARS ago. What was I thinking!! I know I’m probably being ridiculous but I’m now so panicked that I could have harmed the baby (im 14 weeks) Has anyone done anything similar or have any words of reassurance?

I made myself sick as soon as I realised what I’d done and so pretty sure I’ve got all the offending pancakes out of my system but I keep worrying some bacteria could have been digested.

I’m aware I’m being slightly hysterical!

Midwives words to be today “Nature has a beautiful way of protecting our babies” - don’t worry!

It's flour. It's a very long-life product that doesn't go off on any meaningful way. Everyone has bags of flour that have been hanging around forever. I can't imagine it was anything other than a 'best before' date (i.e. a recommendation that it may not be quite as nice after that date) anyway, so assuming it wasn't actively full of mould or weevils or something, I can't see any possible way it could have done any harm.

I am, however, concerned about your making yourself vomit. I don't imagine you've done yourself or baby any harm by doing it, but it's a massive overreaction and just not generally a brilliant plan, and better avoided moving forward.

Why on earth did you make yourself vomit? Flour has a best before date not a use by so quality may deteriorate but it wont be dangerous to eat.

It should be okay.
I am pretty sure I had taken a few OOD pregnacare tablets I got free from the baby unit. Wasn't until recently I saw they had an OOD in June 2019 I had DS in July 2019. I stupidly didn't look! Ok

Don't know why ok ended up on the end!

Flour lasts indefinitely. It’s only a bbe date. Why on earth did you make yourself vomit

You will be fine. You didn't need to vomit though. That's extreme and not necessarily.

The weevils are valuable extra protein for the baby.

(JOKE! You’d have spotted them, but they’re not dangerous anyway)

I think making yourself sick was worse for you than some out of date flour!

(Haha I did actually intend to make a weevil/protein addendum when I posted; I just hit submit too early!)

Honestly, making yourself sick was ridiculous. If you're anxious to the extent that doing that seemed like a good idea you might want to talk to your midwife about getting some help for it

You're not ridiculous honey, you did what you thought was right. I asked my OB today about eating something gone off and she said it was completely fine. So now you know : )
I've had a rough few days, feeling a bit down about all the dangers but we are doing our best. Make sure you get some new flour tomorrow and really enjoy your pancakes!