Thursday 30 October - The test is positive!

I've come back from the hospital with a helpful leaflet entitled "Eating in Pregnancy". Its advice ranges from statements-of-the-bleedin'-obvious ("wash your hands after using the toilet"), through lots of useful stuff to sweeping statements which must need breaking down further. For example, "No pate, not even vegetarian pate". Surely, if this is the case, other pastes like hummous, taramasalata, sandwich spreads must also fall into that category. Equally, it's difficult to imagine how a vegetarian pate, bought freshly from Marks & Spencer and consumed without letting it rise above fridge temperature or exceed any dates could possibly do any harm. I must ask.