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What foods should you definetly avoid during pregnancy?
Answer
There's nothing you should _definitely_ avoid.
There're things that have a higher degree of risk of food poisoning, fish with too much mercury, etc, etc.
But it's your call how much you want to restrict your diet, and what represents acceptable risk to you. There're places and people who think raw vegetables are a bad idea for pregnant women (possible bacteria risk -- toxoplasmosis, say, or e coli). There're people who won't touch undercooked eggs -- but when was the last time you got sick off a poached egg? Soft cheeses are often mentioned, but if you're in North America, they're usually pasteurized. If you're worried, just bake your brie. Caffeine has never been totally restricted, and it was recently in the news that it wasn't posing risks as previously thought.
Moderation is key.
Things to consider:
"Children born to women who ate more seafood during pregnancy have higher IQs compared to those whose mothers ate little or no fish, according to a new study.
"We recorded no evidence to lend support to the warnings of the U.S. advisory that pregnant women should limit their seafood consumption," the study's authors concluded."
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/02/15/seafood-pregnancy.html
"Many women, when their pregnancy is detected, worry that something they did or ate or drank before realizing their condition might jeopardize their unborn child. While these concerns are quite common, experts say that most that occur before your second missed period, which would make you 8 weeks pregnant, are unfounded.
Experts estimate that while there's about a 4 percent risk of birth defects in any pregnancy, only about 6 percent of these are related to anything in the environment -- meaning anything a woman took, did, or was exposed to. The vast majority of birth defects have a genetic origin..
http://www.yourbabytoday.com/features/postconception/index.html
"Abstaining for foetal health: The fiction that even light drinking is dangerous
There is a strong ideological and political movement in the USA to convince pregnant women not to drink any alcohol. An examination of the research literature on the results of drinking during pregnancy does not provide any evidence that light drinking is harmful to the foetus."
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1991.tb01873.x
A v. good article on the whole debate(s):
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2090058,00.html
There's nothing you should _definitely_ avoid.
There're things that have a higher degree of risk of food poisoning, fish with too much mercury, etc, etc.
But it's your call how much you want to restrict your diet, and what represents acceptable risk to you. There're places and people who think raw vegetables are a bad idea for pregnant women (possible bacteria risk -- toxoplasmosis, say, or e coli). There're people who won't touch undercooked eggs -- but when was the last time you got sick off a poached egg? Soft cheeses are often mentioned, but if you're in North America, they're usually pasteurized. If you're worried, just bake your brie. Caffeine has never been totally restricted, and it was recently in the news that it wasn't posing risks as previously thought.
Moderation is key.
Things to consider:
"Children born to women who ate more seafood during pregnancy have higher IQs compared to those whose mothers ate little or no fish, according to a new study.
"We recorded no evidence to lend support to the warnings of the U.S. advisory that pregnant women should limit their seafood consumption," the study's authors concluded."
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/02/15/seafood-pregnancy.html
"Many women, when their pregnancy is detected, worry that something they did or ate or drank before realizing their condition might jeopardize their unborn child. While these concerns are quite common, experts say that most that occur before your second missed period, which would make you 8 weeks pregnant, are unfounded.
Experts estimate that while there's about a 4 percent risk of birth defects in any pregnancy, only about 6 percent of these are related to anything in the environment -- meaning anything a woman took, did, or was exposed to. The vast majority of birth defects have a genetic origin..
http://www.yourbabytoday.com/features/postconception/index.html
"Abstaining for foetal health: The fiction that even light drinking is dangerous
There is a strong ideological and political movement in the USA to convince pregnant women not to drink any alcohol. An examination of the research literature on the results of drinking during pregnancy does not provide any evidence that light drinking is harmful to the foetus."
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1991.tb01873.x
A v. good article on the whole debate(s):
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2090058,00.html
Are foods unsafe during pregnancy now OK while breastfeeding?
Q. There were so many foods to avoid during pregnancy, soft cheese, cold deli meats, medium/rare steak etc.
Do I need to continue avoiding these while breastfeeding? Are they still dangerous to my baby? Or is it different now that baby is born and not in the womb?
Thanks everyone, That is great news! Soft cheese here I come!
Do I need to continue avoiding these while breastfeeding? Are they still dangerous to my baby? Or is it different now that baby is born and not in the womb?
Thanks everyone, That is great news! Soft cheese here I come!
Answer
Yep, all fine now. The parasites those can contain don't transfer into breastmilk like they do the placenta.
Breastmilk is something your body makes completely separate from what you eat and drink. Some drugs can transfer over, but all foods are fine. You can even drink some alcohol, as long as you don't get plastered. If you do get shitfaced, just wait a few hours before breastfeeding again.
But for real drugs, you'll need to be careful about what is okay to use.
To New Mama: it is rare that those cause problems even in pregnancy, but they can cause some diseases such as Listeriousis which took my cousins baby from them at the age of 3. It was born very deformed because the mother (my cousin) got food poisoning from soft cheeses. But yep, very rare for it to happen. Sids is rare too though, but another cousin of mines baby died from that at 4 months old. Better safe than sorry I think, but what chances each mom will take is up to her!
Yep, all fine now. The parasites those can contain don't transfer into breastmilk like they do the placenta.
Breastmilk is something your body makes completely separate from what you eat and drink. Some drugs can transfer over, but all foods are fine. You can even drink some alcohol, as long as you don't get plastered. If you do get shitfaced, just wait a few hours before breastfeeding again.
But for real drugs, you'll need to be careful about what is okay to use.
To New Mama: it is rare that those cause problems even in pregnancy, but they can cause some diseases such as Listeriousis which took my cousins baby from them at the age of 3. It was born very deformed because the mother (my cousin) got food poisoning from soft cheeses. But yep, very rare for it to happen. Sids is rare too though, but another cousin of mines baby died from that at 4 months old. Better safe than sorry I think, but what chances each mom will take is up to her!
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