What are the dietary taboos during pregnancy?

In fact, there are no foods that must not be eaten during pregnancy. Most of the taboos spread on the Internet are essentially risk classifications. As long as you avoid certain high-risk foods that are clearly teratogenic and infection-causing, you can try the rest in small amounts according to your own tolerance. There is no need to be overly anxious about eating one bite.

There are actually a few types of foods that are currently recognized by the medical community to be 100% avoided: undercooked meat, eggs, seafood, such as sashimi, medium-rare steak, and soft-boiled eggs, as well as unpasteurized raw milk, freshly squeezed cow and goat milk, homemade unsterilized cheese, and any food containing alcohol, even mash, liqueur-filled chocolate, and cooking wine. Try not to touch it. These are real risks. Listeria and Toxoplasma infection can easily cause fetal abnormalities, and alcohol may affect fetal neurological development no matter how much is consumed. There is nothing to be left to chance. The last time I went for a prenatal check-up, I met a pregnant mother. She drank freshly squeezed goat milk that her mother-in-law brought from the countryside and said it was nutritious. As a result, she had diarrhea for three days and almost caused uterine contractions. The doctor scolded her for a long time, saying that ordinary people could be infected by drinking this kind of unsterilized milk, not to mention that pregnant women have worse immunity than ordinary people.

As for the "abortion blacklist" that everyone usually quarrels with the most, such as crabs, hawthorns, ice drinks, hot pot, etc., in fact, different opinions have basis, and there is no need to force yourself to believe in one side. The older generation said that these things are cold in nature and can cause miscarriage, which is actually not completely unreasonable, but only if you have symptoms of threatened abortion, gastrointestinal intolerance, or allergies to such foods. I accompanied my best friend to a prenatal check-up a while ago. She had just eaten two thoroughly steamed swimming crabs the day before, and her mother kept nagging her about it. After the doctor asked her whether she had a history of seafood allergy or abdominal pain and bleeding, he directly said that she was fine. Just don’t eat three or four crabs at a time next time. Eating too much cold food can cause diarrhea, and severe diarrhea may cause uterine contractions. It has nothing to do with the crabs themselves. It is also said that eating hawthorn will cause miscarriage. When I was seriously pregnant, I liked to eat fresh hawthorn. I ate two or three hawthorns a day. Nothing happened. On the contrary, my colleague had gastric ulcer. When she was not pregnant, she had acid reflux after eating hawthorn. In the early stages of pregnancy, she was so greedy that she ate half a hawthorn and had heartburn. She went to the emergency room in the middle of the night. The doctor said that she should not have been exposed to acid in the first place, and it had nothing to do with whether she was pregnant or not.

There are also many elderly people who say that you should not eat ice during pregnancy, otherwise the child will be born with intestinal cramps and diarrhea. There is no unified conclusion on this. My second trimester happened to be in the summer, and it was so hot that I couldn't even eat, so I had to eat a small piece of pudding every day. The entire prenatal checkup went smoothly, and the baby had no gastrointestinal problems after birth. The pregnant mother in the same ward didn't dare to touch a morsel of ice, and the baby still suffered from colic for more than a month after birth. To put it bluntly, it all depends on your gastrointestinal tolerance. If you usually drink iced milk tea, you will have diarrhea. Of course you should not try it when you are pregnant. If you always keep iced drinks in your hand, and occasionally eat a stick and a half, it will not have any impact at all.

There are also pregnant mothers around me who have strict food taboos. They don’t even dare to eat too much soy sauce for fear of darkening their babies. There are also pregnant mothers who dare to take a bite of anything. Their babies are all healthy. In fact, pregnancy is already hard enough. As long as you don't touch the clearly risky foods mentioned above and eat what you want to eat when you are greedy, it will make you feel better. It is better than anything else. It is not worth it to endure the craving until you cry secretly in the middle of the night just for a few old ideas.