Mom_Ami - Awsome that you get to see baby a few times and especially that baba looks great which is a huge relief!
Ive been feeling a little paranoid the last couple of days. I think its because I have my scan tomorrow and my worst fear is "No HB", so ive been checking baba with dopler. TBH I dont think I can rest my nerves untill the point comes where i will hold baby in my arms.
To eat or not to eat?
Well, firstly, I dont trust doctors. I will take what they say on board but I most certainly dont live my life by every word they speak. And this has a lot to do with the experience I have had throughout the years.
I remember with my first pregnancy, there was a lot of "pregnant woman should go for Flu jabs" going about (advertised by doctors). But what I knew was a good few pregnant nurses, whom ALL of them said they would not go for the flu jab and that they knew for a fact it was because they had to fill quotas. Funny 4th Pregnancy round and i have not been advised once to have a flu jab, unlike my first.
Also with my first pregnancy I was told no peanut butter under any circumstances (my dads allergic to peanuts). Well that rule was actually thrown out as there was NO Medical evidence what so ever to say that your baby will get a peanut allergy should you eat peanuts whilst pregnant. Same goes for shellfish. My mother never had shellfish when she was pregnant with me ( she still doesn't eat shell fish, just something she cant stomach the thought of eating) yet I have a severe shellfish allergy.
Caffeine?........ I have been pregnant 3 times prior (this being my 4th), I don't drink caffeine (i suffer from insomnia and caffeine just doesn't help with that problem), soft eggs, pate, soft cheese, salami etc etc, avoided them all . I lost all 3 pregnancies.
Yet with this one, I am pretty fond of my Full fat Coke (soda), I have had smoked salmon on cream cheese, I have had Stilton and brie as they are my favorite, I have also had salami. So far so good with this pregnancy, I never got this far with any of my previous ones and i followed every rule religiously.
Soft eggs is really down to the chance of getting salmonella, How many times in my entire life have I ever got salmonella poisoning? Never. Why would I now?
Basically, EVERYTHING in moderation, too much of anything is bad. And I don't see the point in denying myself things my body is craving. A craving is because your body needs it.
But I have to ask the question, how do these doctors know that these types of foods etc etc cause miscarriages? They most certainly could not tell me why I had lost my 3 babies. And my partner and I have gone for every single test available all of which came back fine. We were told there was no medical reason what so ever why we could not have a healthy bouncy baby.
My mother in-law told me a few weeks ago, when she was pregnant with all 3 her boys (youngest just turned 21) there were none of what you can eat and cant eat. She said she could eat anything and everything.
Personally I just think society is adding unnecessary stress to pregnancies, pregnancy is hard enough as it is and we should enjoy it as much as we can. Most of it is just common sense.
Hunger pains??? well they have now gone, I don't feel the need to eat as many times in a day as i did before, but i do feel like i still want to eat all the time, but i think it is down to a habit I may have created, so gotta wean myself off I guess lol
Energy Levels??? Oh wow, last 2 days I feel GREAT! I forgot how it felt to actually not be tired ALL of the time and being able to actually do things, like walk the dogs, which i did today
So Ladies, it does get better
I had a lot to say above, but its only my opinion and really holds no merit. And the fact that I am in a bit of a blabbing mood, probably because i feel so so much better
I am tearing at everything on tv etc etc lol
