Please complete our pregnancy survey (and you could win a luxury break)

[GeraldineMumsnet]

Our next book, Pregnancy: The Mumsnet Guide, will be rolling off the presses and into bookshops in September.

So to tie in with this, we're doing a short survey about pregnancy.

More specifically, the stuff you are/aren't meant to do. Yep, we're talking drink, drugs and hard-core runny cheeses.

Complete the survey and your name will go into a draw for two lovely prizes, courtesy of Luxury Family Hotels and Child-Friendly Cottages.

TIA for taking part.
MNHQ

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Oh bugger, you'll be publishing this just as I am due to give birth! I shall probably buy it anyway, it will look nice on the bookshelf next to the Toddlers one--

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Actually, forgot to say, I didn't eat fish in pregnancy as I'm a vegetarian so maybe there should be an option for that as it could affect results.

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Yeah I too ticked lots of things saying I avoided them, but I avoided them when not pregnant aswell, especially liver!!

Also, you are conflating cheese advice. Advice (and I'm going to oversimplify it too) is not to eat unpasteurised cheese, blue cheese or mould-ripened cheese. So Camembert and Brie are officially out no matter how pasteurised they are, and "Eat unpasteurised cheese (eg camembert, brie etc)" is misleading.

I ate blue cheese occasionally but not (I think) unpasteurised or mould-ripened cheese.

And what do you mean by "drink regularly"? A drink a week (which is roughly what I had in the second two trimesters last time I was pregnant) is "regularly". A drink (or several) a day is also "regularly". Am I an occasional or a regular drinker in your terms?

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I had to lump myself in with those who continued to smoke occasionally in question 1, because I didn't have the option to say that I only smoked before I knew I was pregnant until question 2.

I did drink both coffee and tea but it was all decaffeinated!

I also feel quite uncomfortable at having to answer that I drank 1-3 units per week, whereas I only actually had 1 small glass of white when we moved into our first flat.

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I would suggest that the wording could be better, e.g.:

Did you 'not take illegal drugs at all' - yes, i.e. I didn't.
Quite a confusing way of saying that you didn't IMHO, but then I am a pedant...

Agree with minnie - the wording was confusing, for a couple of the questions you could answer either Yes - I didn't or No - I didn't. So I left those.

Also, I did not eat any fish or liver, but because I am a vegetarian, not because I was following some over the top pregnancy food rules.

Agree with NotPlaying - I had an occasional glass of wine, not 1-3 units every week.

Done, another one who just put in the things I avoided when pregnant, some of hte things I never did in the first place!

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agree about the veggie stuff btw. i avoid liver and pate all the time not cos i'm pregnant.

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again I'm a veggie who hates soft cheese anyway!
Plus I drink 'regularly' - once or twice a week, one, max 2 small glasses at a time

Done. I was pregnant in the past, not now though if this counts

Done. Agree with others, though, that the 'Yes I have not' questions were awkwardly worded. Also had to answer 1-3 units per week, even though it was more like 1-3 a fortnight, and then weeks at a time without.