Nothing makes me shake my head more at Americans and the things "we" believe than lists like "what you can't eat while pregnant". How DO French women make it through pregnancy, I wonder?
I was a secret fish eater every so often (most days of the year I was vegetarian but every so often...) and then in 3rd tri when I developed the most non-awesome 3rd tri "morning sickness" I'm fairly certain the fish and chips regenerated and swam upstream. DS is 11 and I have never eaten fish since.
I trust my raw milk dairies and would have drank it if I could have stood the taste of milk.
I would have eaten eggs if the smell of them ( I could even smell them in french vanilla ice cream) didn't make me want to die.
Yeah I'm still not sure how I gained 60 pounds, since I pretty much ate nothing b/c all foods stank (by 5 months I couldn't go into a grocery store b/c the whole place smelled like old dried milk) or looked wrong and basically just made me cry all the time.
Fears:
Fish=mercury
Deli meats = some disease that literally no one thinks of at any other time
raw milk = people who think those dairies are kept as nasty as mainstream dairies and therefore cows are sick (raw milk is an amazing health food for those who choose to drink the milk of another species, which makes sense, since it's breastmilk for baby cows, and breastmilk tends to be healthy!)
Sushi= mercury again and also not trusting the fish or the sushi chef
Only thing I would think about is mercury. I don't worry about foods making me sick; I either trust where I get my food or I don't. And if I don't, I don't eat it ever. If I do trust it, I'd eat it whenever.
If I could. Which I couldn't.
Gained 60 pounds by breathing air....(OK so there was some chocolate cake and some NON french vanilla, just boring vanilla, ice cream in there)