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2nd Trimester
Stuipd things people tell you not to do while pregnant...
Was reading a book last night, it told me not to use a hair dryer. WHAT??? Crazy.
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Re: Stuipd things people tell you not to do while pregnant...
No deli meat unless it's been warmed because it carries Listeria (sp?) which can be harmful to you and baby.
The other stuff does seem super silly though lol.
no, you're eating for two. it's just that one of you weighs like a pound!
I can't even lift a gallon of milk in front of family or friends before their threatening to whip me after the baby is born and I'm like seriously?? How am I to feed myself if I can't pour milk in my cereal? lol
Had a little old lady at walmart tell me not to push too heavy of a cart that it puts strain on the baby.
Don't lift your hands over your head for any reason, pretty sure the pregnancy stretches reccomended by the Dr. included stretches above my head.
Don't walk TOO much, when I walked an average of 4-6 miles a day prepregnancy. The list goes on and ON AND ON. . . I'm not even half way through yet! I know what you mean about crazy- it seems this town turned to a nutward.
We live on a lake and I love to jet ski. I totally understand that I shouldn't do that, but I was told not to even go out on a sail boat! Um, I'm pretty sure that my car goes WAY faster and hits worse bumps than a sailboat! I DO refuse to help, but I really enjoy sailing and it is SO relaxing!
My doctor actually said that just about anything I want to eat is fine in moderation, but that I should only stay away from a specific list of seafood. I've been eating sub sandwiches with lunchmeat about once a week!
Lotions???? Seriously??? I never heard this. But then again, the vast majority of the list of things not to do, I've done, lol. Even with DD I found a lot of it to be overkill.
I do pretty much everything, in moderation. I don't drink or smoke even when not pregnant, so not those, lol. But lunch meat, caffeine, hot dogs, etc, they happen.
I also use a sacylic (sp?) acid face wash; when I got a prenatal facial (the entire spa is for pregnant women, so that's all they work with) and te facialist told me that it can be harmful if you ingest it or if it's on over like, 50% of your body, but putting it on your face for a minute and rinsing it off isn't going to harm anything.
This exactly. I had a hot dog yesterday and I had lunch meat last week. The odds of getting listeria are less than your odds of being killed in a traffic accident. Women have been having babies for centuries without all these "rules." Just use common sense.
The only things I have cut out are raw fish and meats. I never smoked so not an issue, but I will have a glass of red wine here and there. I eat deli meat, I color my hair, I get manis ad pedis every 2 weeks. I avoid the roller coasters at theme parks also.
As for carrying heavy things, my daughter is well over 30 lbs and as long as I'm feeling fine, I pick her up.
I eat deli meat, just have Subway toast it. Still had cold turkey though the other day. This is in moderation though.
I paint my nails with a mask on and the window open.
I use lotion. That one just seems stupid.
I use a hairdryer (my hair is bleached and doesn't dry on it's own).
I'm past the first trimester so in 2 weeks I am going to bleach my roots with a mask in a well ventilated area.
I eat seafood. Also in moderation but I have had dried squid and tuna from a can. I had sushi once but will be avoiding that because you never know the handling techniques of the restuarant.
If my mother in law knew I was going to bleach my hair and that I was painting my nails she would probably kill me. She is kind of traditional Korean-avoid everything-lady. She doesn't even want me going up and down stairs later. We will see how I feel when I get bigger.
I may seem very liberal but I avoid the big ones like alcohol and drugs (which I have never done). Also, since I have been TTC forever, my body has been built up for baby since I have been taking prenatal vitamins for like a year before baby took up occupancy.
My husband and I went canoeing a few weeks ago and I made the mistake of telling my grandma - according to her I shouldn't be doing anything.
I don't = eat raw fish sushi, drink alcoholic beverages, smoke, eat lunch meat (but as an adult I've never been a fan), take anything for aches
I do = paint my nails but I use 3-free by butter London, have 1 cup of coffee/day, use lotion
When I was grocery shopping the other day the cashier who was an older lady told me not to pick up my SS. He doesn't weigh that much and I wouldn't do it if it hurt or got uncomfortable. Also I don't carry him around I was trying to get him out of the line fast.
A rather large lady at my work always tells me I can't eat anything. Not that I asked for her stupid opinion. She even yelled at me for eating french fries because they have salt. I normally eat very healthy for lunch. On that particular day that's what I wanted. I want to tell her sometime "How about you go on a diet and stop worrying about what I eat!"
Where to start. So far, people have told me to...
-Stop running while I'm pregnant because I might "shake the baby loose."
-Stop exercising in general because it might hurt the baby (in spite of medical evidence otherwise and clearance by my doctor).
-Stop eating deli meat.
-Stop wearing shoes with any sort of heels because I might trip and hurt myself.
-Don't dye my hair.
The list goes on...I've promptly ignored all of the advice.
I can't stand when people tell me not to wear my high shoes (which are pretty much all of them)....I get this a lot from older people.
Someone at work tells me this nearly every single day! That I am going to trip and hurt the baby since I wear heels. I trip when I wear flats, I don't think heels are going to make much of a difference.
With our first pregnancy I was all hyper-paranoid about the things I'm not suppose to have or do...
This time around, I'm enjoying my competitive lifting long after most of the other pregnant women in the sport I know have backed off further than I am (I still can lift over my bodyweight without needing a spotter)... Then I'm enjoying my lunchmeat, Peanut butter, etc. As well as sleeping in any position that I can get SLEEP!