https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:20:27 +0000 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:00:44 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.05 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=41343 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423321&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423321 Author: Bookgirl
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Posted: 16 January 2012 at 10:00pm

Thanks everyone Haven't got a midwife yet so went across to the medical centre yesterday, and they were lovely - explained that the chances of any of the above causing any problems are very low anyway, and just to be careful from now, and not to stress as anything I've done is unlikely to have caused any problems!

Thank you for all the replies. It's quite a learning curve, how to make a baby (the bit after it's conceived, I already knew how the first part happened )]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:00:44 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423321&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423321 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423231&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423231 Author: kelzie_rose
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Posted: 16 January 2012 at 3:56pm

As everyone else has said, a lot of people don't realise that they're pregnant and do stuff.

I spent a month drinking very very heavily after my last miscarriage. Moving heavy stuff around at work. Eating bad stuff. I feel bad but I really didn't think I was going to get pregnant so quickly.]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:56:26 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423231&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423231 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423205&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423205 Author: mizpix
Subject: 41343
Posted: 16 January 2012 at 2:08pm

I sprayed with roundup and grazon right thru my pregnancy and my boy is just perfect.And I mean full on spraying, with a backpack,for hours at a time! I'm sure you will be just fine!]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:08:48 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423205&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423205 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423077&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423077 Author: minipig
Subject: 41343
Posted: 16 January 2012 at 9:12am

I've heard that too MamaT.

I figure there's no point beating yourself up for things you've done before you knew you were pregnant.
Just be careful from here on (which it sounds like you will be anyway )

]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:12:04 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423077&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423077 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423065&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423065 Author: AbzandH
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Posted: 16 January 2012 at 8:34am

Both times I found out at 5 weeks and both times had had at least 3 big drinking sessions, ate everything and anything, and this time was taking fat stripping pills... Only saying this to make you feel better as sooooo many people don't find out for alot longer and are doing much much worse things and their babies are just fine :)
Congrats on the pregnancy!!!]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:34:36 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423065&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423065 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423024&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423024 Author: MamaT
Subject: 41343
Posted: 15 January 2012 at 9:48pm

You can't change the past, the important thing is that you move forward now and change what you can in the future.

I'm not 100% sure on this, but in the very early weeks the placenta isn't providing baby with the nutrients from you, but baby has Its own nutrient supply (the yolk sac) therefore the foods you eat prior to knowing you are pregnant are not passed on to baby yet. Does that make sense?]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:48:07 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423024&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423024 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423013&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423013 Author: mumoftwins
Subject: 41343
Posted: 15 January 2012 at 8:45pm

Bookgirl wrote: Things I did before I found out I was pregnant (8 weeks now, found out a couple of weeks ago) Ate cold meats (++ due to it being Christmas!) Ate ice cream made with raw eggs Took antihistamines Sprayed garden with round up Ate soft cheese Ate cold leftovers Seriously, I'm reading through the booklet I got from my GP - kind of wishing I could go back and do this right! Not seriously - I'm rather attached already to this wee blueberry, but rather worried now that I might have already damaged him/her. Anyway, I was wondering if I am likely to have caused harm? Will I know? (Sorry if this is a silly question, just reading all the info has got me a bit wound up!)

Congratulations!!
Many many women do what you did and worse not knowing they were pregnant and everything has turned out fine! I drunk alcohol almost every night and also did a course of AB's that are on the "NO" list for pregnant women before I found out I was pregnant with #3....I also eat ham, soft cheese, pate, deli coleslaw and sushi during that time!!! Mr 3 is perfect. (I was self-medicating the AB's with Doctors knowledge due to an ongoing recurrent infection.....she had prescribed them several months earlier)
Try not to stress over what might have happened and focus on the exciting times to come!! ]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:45:47 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423013&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423013 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423007&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423007 Author: Hopes
Subject: 41343
Posted: 15 January 2012 at 8:03pm

Most of them, like the others have said, would have been risks at the time but obviously haven't come to anything. You could have picked up food poisoning from the meat, icecream, cheese or leftovers, but if you had, any damage would have been done and if you were going to lose the baby you already would have. So no stress there. I don't know about the roundup or antihistamines, but would honestly doubt you're likely to have done any damage. But I totally know how you feel - it's so easy to worry!]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:03:14 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423007&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423007 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423006&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423006 Author: EmDee
Subject: 41343
Posted: 15 January 2012 at 7:57pm

First congrats on your pregnancy! Secondly welcome to motherhood - from this point on there will always be something to worry about!

I tend to agree with what Nannikin says, if it were to affect your pregnancy I would expect that it should have by now (that's just what I think BTW, I have no medical background to back that up).

And also, there is no point worrying about it now (I know, I know MUCH easier said than done), what is done is done. All you can do is make decisions from here on out. If it is making you really anxious, I suggest discussing with your mw/gp and perhaps seeing if they can send you for an early scan to help set your mind at ease?

Anyway, all the best & I hope your pregnancy all goes well ]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:57:56 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1423006&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1423006 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1422991&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1422991 Author: nannikin
Subject: 41343
Posted: 15 January 2012 at 6:49pm

hey bookgirl! welcome to OB you'll probably find you are not the only one to be in such a situation - luckily our bodies are a lot smarter than we are are and protect baby from lots of things in early pregnancy

my own logic (please take with a grain of salt etc) is that if any of the things i did in early pregnancy were to cause harm, nature would have taken its course very early on - for instance i had a huge bender the weekend after conception (ie conception would have been thurs/fri & had a massive night on the sat) and came to no harm...

big hugs anyways, i know it is so hard not to stress out! hope that was of some small help, best wishes for the rest of your pregnancy



ETA - eating cold meats & raw egg etc is a 'risk' but a relatively small one, so your wee blueberry is more than likely absolutely fine. just thought i better add that! there are a good few women who choose not to modify their diet at all and have happy healthy babies! it just comes down to whatever you are comfortable with, but the guidelines from the GP will be well worth taking into consideration.

sorry for the novel!

Edited by nannikin]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:49:08 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1422991&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1422991 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1422987&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1422987 Author: Bookgirl
Subject: 41343
Posted: 15 January 2012 at 6:34pm

Things I did before I found out I was pregnant (8 weeks now, found out a couple of weeks ago)

Ate cold meats (++ due to it being Christmas!)
Ate ice cream made with raw eggs
Took antihistamines
Sprayed garden with round up
Ate soft cheese
Ate cold leftovers

Seriously, I'm reading through the booklet I got from my GP - kind of wishing I could go back and do this right! Not seriously - I'm rather attached already to this wee blueberry, but rather worried now that I might have already damaged him/her.

Anyway, I was wondering if I am likely to have caused harm? Will I know? (Sorry if this is a silly question, just reading all the info has got me a bit wound up!)]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:34:01 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41343&PID=1422987&title=things-i-shouldnt-have-done#1422987