Don't sleep with a cat because it will steal your baby's soul ???
Btw, listeria in deli meat is possible. It doesn't mean that all deli meat has listeria but it is possible if the food is not handled properly (ie: it was left unrefrigerated, unhygenic location etc). As an adult you would not feel any symptoms, but it is very dangerous for your baby. You can have miscarriage, early delivery etc. It is safer to warm the deli to kill any bacteria. Just think of it like food poisoning, you eat at a shady restaurant, a street food stall, or a suspicious food cart and you don't always get food poisoned. DO NOT TAKE THIS RISK. Just because you never get it before doesn't mean you won't ever.
Don't drink coffee at all because it'll harm the baby.
Don't dye your hair or paint your nails because it'll harm the baby.
Dont eat spicy food because the baby will be born rashed up.
Don't go in a swimming pool because the baby will drown or the baby will get some type of infection.
Don't eat pineapple.
Dont walk barefoot around your house. Idk why ? ? something about it getting my baby sick.
Dont eat spicy stuff the baby will come out red. MAYOR EYE ROLL on that one. All i ever did was add hot sauce on almost everything i ate ?
My "mil" called my ob an idiot because he said it was perfectly fine to dye my hair while pregnant. I went and dyed my hair twice and she kept yelling at me that i was going to kill the baby ??
Dont have sex because you can hurt the baby ? yea ok my pregnancy hormones were insane and thats all i wanted ??
Dont reach for things up high because i would wrap the cord around my sons neck.
There were so many more but i forgot ? i spent almost my entire pregnancy rolling my eyes at the stupid things people would say
when I was around 12 weeks during the holidays we were doing a game of like "bring me" which is when the host tells you to bring random stuff and then you race to get it first to the host and if you do, you win.
Well one of the items I had and I rushed up and when I won I did a celebratory dance and was jumping for joy and all the elders were like "you're pregnant you can't be dancing and jumping like that" ?? kinda killed My vibe.
I was doing some sweet disco moves.
@amadae - I went hiking yesterday! A great way to stay active when you're pregnant!
@nurse true true listeria won't cause issues on the momma but it is fatal to the fetus. That's another reason why I don't eat soft serve ice cream because of this risk. Those machines hardly ever get cleaned properly (I work in the food industry and over 90% of the time when they are taken apart they are moldly because they go weeks without cleaning and just fill with new mix)
The dumb thing I've heard is not to step out during an eclipse if you're not wearing a red ribbon or a metal safety pin on your belly or it will cause birth defects.
Oh!!! I remember one. Your man can't go down on you due to the potential risk of aneurism.
To the people scared of listeria, you know that listeria is found in every type of food, right? Right now there's a huge recall on frozen fruit and vegetables. You can also get it from fresh fruits and vegetables, canned food, ice cream, restaurants (Chipotle *cough cough*) and pretty much any other type of food that's not been cooked to a high temperature