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I’m just appalled by all of the ideas here without listening to your health professionals who will tell you that it’s important to be eating a wholesome healthy diet while pregnant. Foods rich with nutrients and wholesome like chicken, vegetables, eggs, and dairy. No processed and foods loaded with sugars and bad carbs. A baby who gets bad quality foods from the mother will not be easy to deliver. Talk to your obgyn doctor.
Oh good grief, women have been having successful pregnancies and births since day one without consulting an obgyn for food choices.
Oh good grief, women have been having successful pregnancies and births since day one without consulting an obgyn for food choices.
I know! I'm a baby boomer and what my mother's generation ate and drank during pregnancies was shocking. It's amazing so many boomers survived.
Deli meats won't harm a baby. There are less processed deli meats without nitrates. Trader Joe has their own deli meats without nitrates at low prices. Publix, Whole Foods, Earth Fare, etc carries them at a higher price.
A couple of slices of Boars Head roast beef or turkey isn't going to hurt a baby.
No source of protein is far worse than deli meats.
Fishes containing mercury, like swordfish and tuna, is unwise.
Raw fish/shellfish is unwise.
My mother lived on wonder bread and other processed foods pumped full of chemicals and sugar. We all survived.
I know! I'm a baby boomer and what my mother's generation ate and drank during pregnancies was shocking. It's amazing so many boomers survived.
Deli meats won't harm a baby. There are less processed deli meats without nitrates. Trader Joe has their own deli meats without nitrates at low prices. Publix, Whole Foods, Earth Fare, etc carries them at a higher price.
A couple of slices of Boars Head roast beef or turkey isn't going to hurt a baby.
No source of protein is far worse than deli meats.
Fishes containing mercury, like swordfish and tuna, is unwise.
Raw fish/shellfish is unwise.
My mother lived on wonder bread and other processed foods pumped full of chemicals and sugar. We all survived.
I remember my mother telling the story of when my little brother was born. When he decided to come out he came really fast. Part of the story was "I was in the labor room when he crowned and had to put out my cigarette so the nurses could rush me into the delivery room. There was no dont eat or drink this or that in the 70's
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I'm looking for lunch ideas for my pregnant wife. She doesn't have access to a microwave so it needs to be a cold lunch. She's been packing PBJ sandwiches and she says they are getting old.
She can't eat deli meat due to her pregnancy. Does anyone have any other easy/quick lunch ideas that don't require a microwave but are safe for a pregnant woman?
Salads are another thing she packs sometimes but she is sort of turned off by lettuce in this pregnancy so she has to force it down.
Congratulations to you & your wife! I’m not pregnant…(yet)…but I wandered my way into this forum.^^ What about wraps with safe catch tuna once a week or chicken & raw veggies? She could also try peanut butter, nuts, apples & bananas in a pita to add a little pizzaz to PBJs if she is tired of that & the fresh fruit is better than jelly anyway. AND…there are lots of salad ideas without lettuce.
I would try not to get too caught up in the “rules.” They are somewhat arbitrary and based on an abundance of caution in what could conceivably pass to baby or affect mom in a negative way that also affects baby
During my pregnancy, there were 5 separate recalls on lettuce due to listeria.
You'll never hear a doctor tell a pregnant woman she shouldn't eat lettuce. That's when I realized so many of these rules are meaningless. There weren't any deli meat recalls, so to me that seemed safer to eat than lettuce.
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What about wraps with safe catch tuna once a week or chicken & raw veggies? She could also try peanut butter, nuts, apples & bananas in a pita to add a little pizzaz to PBJs if she is tired of that & the fresh fruit is better than jelly anyway. AND…there are lots of salad ideas without lettuce.
