Anyone else...

[Em91]

Please tell me i'm not the only one who is paranoid about food! I have a friend who lost her baby late on due to getting food posioning. So i'm so overly cautious it's stupid.

We had a BBQ at home and i made OH oven cook mine before BBQ'ing it! But got invited to his parents at the weekend and couldn't expect them to do that i literally checked every mouthful to see if it was cooked and ended up eating hardly anything.

As for Use by dates, i never really cared if it was a day or two over before. Now on the use by date it goes in the bin.

I know i'm being way to over cautious, anyone else concerned about food? Or just me with major paranoia.

Also rather than making a whole new thread...
people have started touching my bump and it's driving me insane, they think just because there's a baby in there they can prod and poke me whenever they please!! It's mental. LO kicked one of my colleagues the other day, think he was telling them to go away lol x

Apologies for the pointless thread

 

[Karate Kid]

Hey Hun,

I am currently driving hubby insane by throwing away food that is a few days over it's use by date! Like you before being pregnant it wouldn't worry me a tad but now I am so over cautious.... I have always been obsessive at BBQ's as I had a really bad case of food poisoning two weeks before we flew out to get married and that was caused by undercooked meat....

I don't blame you at all hun.... It's our instinct to care and protectcoming out in full force already!

As for people touching bump, I have only had a handful of close friends and family doing this but my office is VERY formal and the females are famously career minded so babies don't really appeal to them! Good on LO protecting you from straying hands!

 

[Jayjay027]

I'm the same with food. I obsessively check everything before I put it in my mouth. And use by dates are strictly taken note of - just in case.
I think I'm driving hubby a bit mad with it, but he definitely doe understand why I'm doing it.

As for the bump touching - I can honestly say I haven't had that problem. Its only my DH, family and best friend who's touched my bump so far x

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[saralou5]

I'm the same! I think it's better to be overly cautious than risk any problems. I used to eat the chinese for breakfast I'd had the night before but I don't even do that anymore .

I've just started to get people touching my belly too! I think it's lovely . Not strangers, but people I know at Uni and stuff and they always ask first which makes it nice .


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[Amylize]

I'm not too bad, i cook so i know meat is cooked properly but i'm not cautious at all!! maybe i'm a little more laid back now. i paniced over everything little thing in first trimester! then i thought shit what happens if me being cautious and over protective and worrying will make the baby a worrier and clingly when she comes along, i think now i just take it as it comes.
x

 

[TaffyRose]

Like Amy, I haven't been overly cautious, especially since tri 2. I started stressing about all sorts in tri 1 and decided in the end it really wasn't doing me or the baby any good so I've really chilled out and loving pregnancy, I'm hoping it'll translate into a lovely chilled happy baby

I haven't had too many people touch my bump, but I find I have my hands on my bump or cross my arms around other people, which does put people off just randomly touching it xxx

 

[FirstBabyEek]

Sorry to hear of your friends loss, she must be devastated.

I've always been a bit fussy about food being cooked properly. I got salmonella on holiday one year and it lasted three months, so I check all food.

I think you are right to be cautious about what you eat whne you have a LO on board, its not just us that feel it.

As for bump touching, I think people think that they are giving your LO some love by touching your belly, I never realised how personal it is until I became pregnant.
xx

 

[babyem]

Im not too bad tbh..

People touching my ump though- how annoying! I even find it uncomfortable when my dad wants to, I just dont like people touching me!

 

[CARNAT22]

Tri-hopping here

My Oh is a total use by date nazi, to the extent he went mental thst I ate some bread one day out of date.

About 7 years ago his cousin's partner died after eating a sandwich from a deli so this has a lot to do with his paranoia

(It was an egg mayo sandwich and she died of a severe reaction to salmonella poisoning - I actually remember reading about it in the local news - she left two little boys!!)

So I'll keep my OH happy and stick well within use by dates

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[Em91]

Glad I'm not alone lol!

 

[babyem]

Tri-hopping here

My Oh is a total use by date nazi, to the extent he went mental thst I ate some bread one day out of date.

About 7 years ago his cousin's partner died after eating a sandwich from a deli so this has a lot to do with his paranoia

(It was an egg mayo sandwich and she died of a severe reaction to salmonella poisoning - I actually remember reading about it in the local news - she left two little boys!!)

So I'll keep my OH happy and stick well within use by dates

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Thats awful!!! Her poor family! I think that this will make me a bit more vigilant x