Friday, 17 October 2008
Day 1
This is an unusual situation. Having had IVF, I have today had two embryos implanted, count as pregnant until proved otherwise. Or, I count as not pregnant, but have to behave as if I am. I feel a lot in common with Schrödinger's Cat. We've apparently got a 1 in 3 chance of it working, and a 1 in 15 chance of twins. Great.
I've always been sceptical about the the various thou shalt not rules which are regularly broadcast for what pregnant women shouldn't eat, and am interested to know whether my perspective will change when it's me. Or how much my tastes will change so that I don't care. What I want to examine here is whether the various injunctions relate to a level of risk you should accept, or one which you should definitely avoid. I'm going to try to look at them all in turn, and compare them against a very dangerous activity that none of us are willing to give up: crossing the road.
My initial thoughts on things to look at are pâté, low fat food, cheese, alcohol units, handling and eating raw meat, salmonella in eggs, caffeine, differences across nations in these rules, foreign travel and vitamin A. I've been inspired partly by an article I read by Zoe Williams and a discussion on mumsnet, but mainly through pig-headedness.
We shall see how I get on....
I've always been sceptical about the the various thou shalt not rules which are regularly broadcast for what pregnant women shouldn't eat, and am interested to know whether my perspective will change when it's me. Or how much my tastes will change so that I don't care. What I want to examine here is whether the various injunctions relate to a level of risk you should accept, or one which you should definitely avoid. I'm going to try to look at them all in turn, and compare them against a very dangerous activity that none of us are willing to give up: crossing the road.
My initial thoughts on things to look at are pâté, low fat food, cheese, alcohol units, handling and eating raw meat, salmonella in eggs, caffeine, differences across nations in these rules, foreign travel and vitamin A. I've been inspired partly by an article I read by Zoe Williams and a discussion on mumsnet, but mainly through pig-headedness.
We shall see how I get on....
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