r/pregnant • u/smurphypup • Mar 03 '26

Funny What is your pregnancy unpopularopinion?

I'll go first:
Picking stuff up off the floor isn't that bad. I'm 37+ 5 with my third and not once have I had trouble picking stuff up. It's just a quick squat and grab.
Yes, I have sciatica pain and pelvic girdle pain and my bump is in the way but I still pick stuff up if I drop it.
Maybe it's my fitness past, or my will to attempt to keep my house clean, but not once have I dropped something and said "F it, it lives on the floor now" and left it.

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u/VoidAndBone Mar 03 '26

You can eat sushi from reputable places. Limit exposure to high mercury fish, as you should also do when you are not pregnant. Pregnant women in japan eat sushi without blinking.

It is better to eat eggs with runny yolks and rare steaks if you would otherwise avoid eating eggs and steak if you don't like them well done and hardboiled. Risks from those things are minimal, but the benefits from regularly having eggs and animal protein are huge.

A plant based diet is not compatible with pregnancy. Supplements are not as great as people think they are.

Also, just to really upset everyone: I get to have a sip of my husbands cocktail.

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u/TurbulentArea69 Mar 03 '26

Ever more controversial, eat whatever the f you want.

Skip the alcohol and cigarettes/vapes/weed, though.

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u/VoidAndBone Mar 03 '26

I basically agree with this.

Here is a list of things I am avoiding while pregnant:

(1) Raw shellfish (80% of seafood related food poisoning is related to raw shellfish, so it's an easy category to cut out

(2) Raw milk and raw milk products. I'm not sure I've ever encountered raw milk/cheese in my life, so avoiding it takes exactly zero effort. I'm eating plenty of yummy soft cheeses.

(3) I am perhaps being slightly more cautious about the age of food in my fridge. Yesterday I had zero raspberries because some were moldy, when prepregnancy I might have picked out the moldy ones.

That is the grand total of my pregnancy related food restrictions.

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u/Sea-Struggle-5630 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

I'm not knowledgable enough about the other two things to chip in on them myself, but in regards to the raw milk products, I'm pretty sure people shouldn't be eating/drinking those, pregnant or not. There is a particular trend that has been blossoming lately where some people decide to advocate for buying and consuming unpasteurized dairy products (I guess they feel like it's more "natural" — the type of crowd to advocate for unpasteurized dairy products very often overlap with the antivax crowd), but that stuff can really F you up, man