Astrid I aggree as a midwife i educate woman about listeria and foods to watch out for, but to be honest I still have most of the foods on the list if I want but i am selective at where i will buy it from.
Some peopke go way over the top and become psycoticly obbsessed with what they will and wont eat.
You wouldnt eat something normally if it smelt off or tasted funny so why should pregnancy be any different!
I really wish the risks were outlined with data, like other things we are warned about, so we can make informed decisions. Just a blanket "Don't eat", to me, is really not helpful. I suppose I am a numbers person and like to see "there is a 1 in 100 risk of....".
I personally don't care how low the risk is - and it does appear to be quite low if only 70 people get it here each year. With having already suffered 3 unexplained losses I'm not taking any unnecessary risks whatsover. I can live without all the "risky" food for 9 months. I'd hate to turn out to be one of those 70 odd people who do get it.
Food risks... another one of those personal choice things... a lot like having an amnio or CVS for example. There's a risk with that but so many choose to have it anyway.
I do think there's a lot of scaremongering pregnant woman... The final straw for me was the report that said pregnant woman shouldn't be near the city and if they live near busy roads that they should shut their houses up because otherwise xyz will happen. Basically we can't even breathe!!!!! Apparently vitamin C causes cancer now, what a riot! A well manipulated study can show anything, so I generally ignore and just listen to my body.
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