Things I shouldn’t have done :(

hey bookgirl! welcome to OB you'll probably find you are not the only one to be in such a situation - luckily our bodies are a lot smarter than we are are and protect baby from lots of things in early pregnancy

my own logic (please take with a grain of salt etc) is that if any of the things i did in early pregnancy were to cause harm, nature would have taken its course very early on - for instance i had a huge bender the weekend after conception (ie conception would have been thurs/fri & had a massive night on the sat) and came to no harm...

big hugs anyways, i know it is so hard not to stress out! hope that was of some small help, best wishes for the rest of your pregnancy



ETA - eating cold meats & raw egg etc is a 'risk' but a relatively small one, so your wee blueberry is more than likely absolutely fine. just thought i better add that! there are a good few women who choose not to modify their diet at all and have happy healthy babies! it just comes down to whatever you are comfortable with, but the guidelines from the GP will be well worth taking into consideration.

sorry for the novel!

Edited by nannikin

Most of them, like the others have said, would have been risks at the time but obviously haven't come to anything. You could have picked up food poisoning from the meat, icecream, cheese or leftovers, but if you had, any damage would have been done and if you were going to lose the baby you already would have. So no stress there. I don't know about the roundup or antihistamines, but would honestly doubt you're likely to have done any damage. But I totally know how you feel - it's so easy to worry!

You can't change the past, the important thing is that you move forward now and change what you can in the future.

I'm not 100% sure on this, but in the very early weeks the placenta isn't providing baby with the nutrients from you, but baby has Its own nutrient supply (the yolk sac) therefore the foods you eat prior to knowing you are pregnant are not passed on to baby yet. Does that make sense?

I've heard that too MamaT.

I figure there's no point beating yourself up for things you've done before you knew you were pregnant.
Just be careful from here on (which it sounds like you will be anyway )

As everyone else has said, a lot of people don't realise that they're pregnant and do stuff.

I spent a month drinking very very heavily after my last miscarriage. Moving heavy stuff around at work. Eating bad stuff. I feel bad but I really didn't think I was going to get pregnant so quickly.