Mom's how bad is lunch meat during pregnancy I am 4 months today and am on vacation so we have been…

I ate it my whole pregnancy

I've been eating it since the beginning of my pregnancy.

Should just be heated up to avoid listeria .

Well were on the beach so no microwave and I've only ate it mainly on this trip

So u think just a few times would be ok

What I read made me nervous

@mamakitty22, I think a few times would be okay

I was nervous about listeria, too, including in hotdogs. But I craved lunchmeat so I ate it nearly every day. Lol you just never know what it'll be found in so if anything check for recalls before eating that brand, at least.

I ate it throughout all 4 of my pregnancies

I work in the food industry. When pregnant lunch meat should only be eaten when purchased prepackaged from a name brand like Hormel or hillshire farms. Never buy lunch meat from a deli. Most LM recalls for listeria are due to delis not properly cleaning their slicing machines. Also you should not purchase a deli sandwich from a restaurant like Subway, Jimmy Johns or Arby's. The safest meats are those that are HPP'd or High Pressure Pasteurized these have a bacteria "kill" step applied post packaging by applying high amounts of pressure to the package so that it bursts all bacteria in the package. The only company I know that does this is Hormel Foods.

I heated mine up b4 eating but I don't bother now. Heard it's rare to get listeria from sandwhich meat