Is pate a no no all the way through pregnancy or just the beginning bit??

[Thankyouandgoodnight]

I am overdue and DYING for some pate.....!!!

French women are given no restrictions on cheeses like brie - so long as they are made using pasturised milk.

Surely any cheese would be ok if it is pasteurised or does the fact it is then mould ripened cancel that out? And if it is pasturised, how does it get mould ripened? Surely tha tkills the bacteria off, or do I just havev a woeful knowledge of cheese production?

You would think by now they would actually know for definite what you shouldn't eat though. So much advice has changed even in the three years since I had DS.

Whilst I do agree to a certain extent with the argument that women have been having babies for millenia without avoiding certain foods, surely there are many less still births etc than there were in previous generations?

StarMcK and eth37, still not quite correct - you should not have cod liver oil because of the high vitamin A content; fish oils contain lots of the omega 3 fatty acids but also lots of omega 6 fatty acids.
Omega 6 fatty acids are still desperately important for tissue formation - we should be taking in at least twice as much omega 6 f.a. as omega 3 f.a.; although the government recommendation is a ratio of 5:1 (omega 6mega 3).
It has been estimated that the average Brit takes in a ratio of about 25:1 omega 6: omega 3, which is why no one bothers to recommend taking an adeqate amount of omega 6 f.a. and concentrates on raising the omega 3 f.a. intake.

the cheese issue is a classic - unpasteurised soft cheeses were placed off limits because a batch of mould-ripened soft cheese of an unpasteurised nature (I think it was Brie but it might have been Camembert) became contaminated by Listeria. This was post-production, possibly even in the storage phase. Because of this, ALL unpasteurised and soft cheeses were discouraged.

And there is little to no chance of them being certain of what you should or shouldn't eat as there will always be some new "finding" that shows X or Y is ggod/ bad for pregnancy. Next thing you know, someone will manage to link vitamin C to premature births or something mad like that and then we'll all be told not to take vitamin C and to avoid citrus etc. [MADE UP TO DEMONSTRATE POINT - THERE IS NO SUCH CONCEPT IN CIRCULATION]

well well, have just re-read my message and discovered a shortcut to the grin emoticon - typing : and then o immediately after it! (as in omega 6: omega 3 but without the space) so if anyone was wondering what the hell a was doing in the middle of my brackets, now you know.

good qu and I am about to go to bed as my MN habit is needing to be reduced! must try to be in bed before 2am...... too late for this sesh!