Hi Ryn,

Nah don't go off fish - its a great source of low-fat protein for us pregnant people! Salmon, sardines, and a few others are great sources of those fish oils and the mercury in them is low enough to not need to worry about it at all. The benefits of the Omega-3's in the lower mercury fish outweigh any effect the mercury could have.

The main lesson I think is definitely eat fish as its good for the baby, but skip shark, marlin, swordfish, and orange roughy. And canned tuna is fine but just don't have stacks of it.

You know something that really narks me off? All fish contains mercury so pregnant women shouldn't eat it at all (as a piscetarian most of my protein is from fish, so sod that), but babies need fish oils so best buy more tablets to take.

I soooo think all these stupid rules are thought up by marketing companies so we take their stupid tablets. I've ended up ignoring the whole lot of them - I'm only off caffine because I gave that up before I found out, and I went of alcohol anyway. OK, sorry for that, just got a bit hormonal about this again.