listeria

I was obsessive about isteria when I was preg with Maya. Totally obsessive. I lived on toast and marmite for weeks (I also had bad morning sickness) coz I knew they were 'safe'.

If it helps, I found some stats when I was preg for the year 2001, and there were 200,000+ confirmed pregnancies and only 3 reported cases of listeria. So that's like a fraction of a fraction of a percentage. That didn't ease my mind tho - I was paranoid about being one of the 3!

The symptoms are mild fever, headache, aches and pains and possibly vomiting, but you can also have listeriosis without being sick, coz listeria can affect your baby without affecting you.

Also, my midwife gave me a comprehensive list of risky foods that was published by the Auckland District Health Board and it's called "Food Safety in Pregnancy". I found it really helpful.

i was strict also, although my doctor here laughed at me for avoiding sushi. He said that Japanese sushi places were fine and that i was paranoid. i ignored him anyway

This is our first baby and like most I am overly paranoid.

I also follow the booklet....but I don’t eat any thing from the food bars, like samies, pies etc.
I don’t eat salad.....even subway.

I tell the burger joints to skip the mayo. I don’t eat pita bread/samies/ etc with smoked salmon, smoked chicken or any other smoked fish/meat. I don’t eat prawns, shrimp etc (specially from the Chinese restaurants) unless it was cooked at home

My mum laughs at me...she says when she was pregnant with both her children she ate what ever she wanted (and my mum is from Ukraine...so their food included allot of salad and smoked meat/fish...even fish cooked with salt and vinegar, so practically raw fish)

But I am extra extra careful.




Edited by Roksana

the thing i found hardest was avoiding the soft-serve ice-creams since they can contain raw egg products.. not easy int he middle of summer when all you want is a yummy ice-cream with sprinkles and flakes etc.

I avoid all deli stuff, any chicken i haven't cooked myself, and basically everything that has already been said. I too was very paranoid about the fact that it can affect the baby without you really getting too many symptoms at all.

my mum's the same.. she always goes "oh, in my day, we ate anything we wanted"

i always tell her that "in her day" food was usually preparred and eaten the same day, it was fresh, had very little likelihood of being stored somewhere for months etc.. and also bugs etc have become a lot more advanced and dangerous now. come on, in her day, the choice of takeaway foods was fish and chips and thats it. lolol

I told you I was paranoid. Tho I know that the Mayo is okay...I still dont eat it.

Wendy's is the only thing close to work...so that's what I have nearly every second day (to lazy to make lunch).

Sorry, I dont eat bacon....ever!

I didnt no that about soft serve ice creams.I lived on them whil i was working and pregnant at Burger king.

yes, no soft cheese. that was painful. my husband ate a block of it, in front of me. how cruel

ohhh i forgot, custard is about the worst thing you can eat. Something about the powder that is used, especially custard squares. Really weird because usually i dont like custard but when i knew i couldnt have it i really wanted it.

cream and mock cream arent safe either which sux cos i LOVE mock cream donuts.and I love custard squares.sux when we grab luch from the bakery cos i have to find another sweet thign to eat.

Tell me about it........I thought being pregnant is easy.....well you know what I mean.

But then I found out all the things you can and can’t do...can and can’t eat.......

But hopefully at the end of all this I will have the most precious thing...my baby!!!
And I am sure it is worth every thing I had to give up for the last 9 months.