What dietary taboos should you pay attention to when you are newly pregnant?

When you are newly pregnant, there are no dozens or hundreds of dietary taboos posted on the Internet. There are only a few types of foods that are clearly harmful to the fetus that you really need to avoid 100%. The rest of the "forbidden list" posted on the Internet must be judged based on your personal constitution, so there is no need to be overly anxious.

When I was just pregnant with my eldest son, my family also made a page full of fasting lists, including watermelon and hot pot. Later, when I went to a community hospital to ask the doctor, I learned that the most important thing to avoid is all alcoholic drinks and foods, whether it is low-alcohol fruit wine, home-brewed rice wine, or desserts with added alcohol. It’s the so-called fermented glutinous rice dumplings that have been boiled and the alcohol has evaporated. Don’t touch them. There is no safe intake of alcohol. As long as it enters the body, it may affect the neurological development of the fetus. My colleague drank two glasses of sparkling wine at a party when she was pregnant. She was worried and afraid of doing various screenings throughout the first trimester. It was so miserable.

In addition to alcohol, you should also completely avoid foods that are not fully cooked, including sashimi, soft-boiled eggs, half-cooked steaks, and freshly squeezed unsterilized fresh milk. These ingredients can easily carry Listeria and Salmonella. The average person will suffer from vomiting and diarrhea for at most two or three days. Once pregnant women are infected, it is easy to cause intrauterine infection, and even miscarriage in severe cases. I met a girl in the obstetrics department last week who had a fever and was hospitalized after eating raw sweet shrimp from a Japanese restaurant. Fortunately, she was fine in the end, so she really couldn’t take the risk. There are also ingredients such as sprouted potatoes and uncooked green beans that are easily poisoned by ordinary people. After pregnancy, you need to pay more attention. When handling the ingredients, boil them for an extra two minutes and there will be no problem.

As for the most talked about "sliding foods" such as crabs, hawthorns, longans, and ice drinks, the controversy has always been quite big. The elderly believe that they are cold and will stimulate uterine contractions and they are not allowed to eat them. Western medicine believes that as long as the ingredients are clean and there is no discomfort, you can eat them. To put it bluntly, it depends on the individual's physical constitution. When I was pregnant with my second child, I was greedy and ate two steamed hairy crabs, but nothing happened. The girl I met in the emergency department last time ate half of one and started to bleed. When the doctor asked, he found out that she had signs of threatened miscarriage. She usually gets abdominal pain and diarrhea when eating cold food, so of course she should avoid it. It is even more exaggerated to say that hawthorn can cause uterine contractions. You have to eat more than ten kilograms of fresh hawthorn at one time to reach the dose that can cause uterine contractions. I usually eat one or two candied haws and two hawthorn sticks if I am greedy. The active ingredients are not enough to fill the gap between my teeth. As long as there are no signs of miscarriage and I don’t feel uncomfortable eating these things, there is no need to eat these foods.

In fact, most pregnancies are heavy during the first trimester, so you don’t have to force yourself to eat all kinds of “big supplements”, and you don’t have to be afraid to eat this or that. Avoid the clearly harmful ones mentioned above, and follow your own appetite for the rest. If your blood sugar is normal, you can drink a cup of milk tea occasionally, or eat a popsicle in the summer if your stomach can tolerate it. You really don’t need to wrong yourself for the so-called “taboos”. On the contrary, a bad mood will have a much greater impact on the baby than eating a few bites of “taboo foods”. When I was seriously pregnant, I wanted to eat hot and sour noodles. I ate it every three to five times, and the baby was born healthy. As long as I didn't eat too spicy or salty every time, it would irritate my stomach.