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Post by everso on Dec 17, 2010 18:05:49 GMT
It never ceases to amaze me how many restrictions there are nowadays on pregnant mothers regarding the foods they eat, the alcohol they drink, whether they can smoke etc.
When I was pregnant with my daughter (34 years ago) I had one of these pregnancy advice books telling me that I should try to stop smoking or at least cut down, and not to drink too much in case I fell over and harmed the baby. There was no mention of foods to avoid.
I cut down my smoking to 5 a day (my daughter weighed nearly 10lb. at birth), I changed from whisky to sweet martini (yes, I know, how could I, but I was pregnant) and I ate just what I wanted.
My daughter is pregnant again and you wouldn't believe the list of foods she's not permitted. She doesn't smoke anyway, but she does like a drop of gin and that's not allowed (although she's going to be a devil and will have a drop of Baileys at Christmas).
What a trial. It's a miracle anyone gets pregnant nowadays. ;D
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Post by housesparrow on Dec 17, 2010 18:25:21 GMT
The thought of pregnancy never put me off having kids...it was the restrictions imposed by the next 18 years (and counting).
Giong back 30 odd years, it used to be quite the thing to have a stiff drink at the onset of labour. But probably if you did that now (and were foolish enough toadmit it) you would be refused all pain relief.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2010 15:22:41 GMT
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Post by aubrey on Dec 25, 2010 19:47:30 GMT
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Post by revisedartlily on Dec 25, 2010 21:28:23 GMT
Bloody hell. We live in a mad world. When I was expecting my oldest, I suffered horrible morning sickness. The only thing that fixed it ( and goodness only knows how I came to discover this) was by having a tot of icy cold Dubonnet first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach. How weird is that. Nowadays I guess she would have been taken off me at birth.
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Post by everso on Dec 26, 2010 1:02:08 GMT
Bloody hell. We live in a mad world. When I was expecting my oldest, I suffered horrible morning sickness. The only thing that fixed it ( and goodness only knows how I came to discover this) was by having a tot of icy cold Dubonnet first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach. How weird is that. Nowadays I guess she would have been taken off me at birth. And you never quite forget that feeling either . The only thing that helped me was drinking Schweppes bitter lemon.
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Post by aubrey on Dec 26, 2010 10:24:58 GMT
I saw a thing yesterday about cannabis being good for morning sickness (in the same way that it is good for chemo-therapy sickness).
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Post by housesparrow on Dec 26, 2010 17:40:50 GMT
Excuse my ignorance on this, but isn't cannabis only really effective if smoked? I know some people say it is just as good eaten, but I'm not sure this is proven. And encouraging pregnant women to smoke doesn't sound a good idea to me.
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Post by aubrey on Dec 26, 2010 18:11:24 GMT
I don't know.
I'll try to find that thing I saw.
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Post by aubrey on Dec 26, 2010 18:22:39 GMT
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Post by sesley on Dec 27, 2010 20:32:30 GMT
well i suppose with all the modern medical knowledge they can only go on what the results of bad diets and living does to a human body,so all they are trying to do is pass on relevant information for you. I recently went for a breast scan for the first time and they found puzzling white dots,so they explored it all with more scans and biposey to decide what they were worried about was a polyp thing that was binign,with all the tests i went through to get the results they suggested i could tell them to go away and leave me alone,but my answer was,i trusted their judgement because they new more than i did and its good that they were being so through.So with the advise thye give for pregnant women its the same thought,they know from what they have learn't what is good and what is not.
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