... while pregnant (but only legal ones, of course).
Here is what I, personally, considered to be safe in pregnancy and breastfeeding:
Coffee, wine, beer*, two kinds of antidepressants, claritin, benadryl, two asthma inhalers, sudafed, tylenol, ibuprofen**, commercial soft goat cheese, the very occasional sushi from somewhere that had never ever in five years made me sick, bicycling, snowshoeing, flying at 8 months, skipping that stupid useless first-trimester screening, skipping that stupid GTT because I was all the low-risk categories but "under 25", giving birth at a freestanding birth center, getting a flu shot.... surely I'm forgetting something, but, er, I forget.
Here is what I did not consider to be safe:
A long list of fishes from a long list of local bodies of water, fish ever from the Great Lakes, eating at really seedy restaurants, smoking (I've never smoked anything, in fact), rollerblading whilst watermelon-shaped, and NOT vaccinating my child.
*None of these in the first trimester, but only because I was so nauseous that they made me throw up. Seriously. I would sit at the table every morning and stare mournfully at a cup of herbal tea, unable to even sip it.
**Not, of course, in the third trimester.
It bothers me that some people seem to make a hobby of "let's tell pregnant women what they can't do!" So frustrating and weird. I say most things in moderation!
ReplyDeleteseriously. i just saw that the mayo clinic guide (which i find useful but am happy not to rely on completely) says to avoid all caffeine JUST IN CASE. no, they don't give a reason -- don't you care about the BAYBEE? why do you need reasons?
ReplyDelete(my body has the last laugh, though, since coffee, tea for more than a few days running, and more than a few sips of beer or wine makes me feel awful. but you can have my coca-cola when you pry it form my cold, dead hands.)