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Originally posted by dtb
What do you mean go without peanut butter?!? I never heard that -- many a nursing mother would starve w/o this ambrosia during the breastfeeding era!
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Apparently, peanut consumption of any kind during pregnancy or breast feeding correlates to severe peanut allergies. No peanut butter (or satay) for mom until weaning, and no peanut butter for Jr. until after the 3rd BD. If there is any history of dairy or other allergies in either family, they are supposed to avoid that, too. So nuts join alcohol, organ meants, raw vegetables and salads, cheese, caffinated drinks, shell fish and fin fish on the lists of things pregnant women aren't supposed to consume.
Of course, the way things are going, before long pregnant & nursing women will be permitted to eat nothing at all but a healthful, prescribed gruel. They're no longer human beings, you know they are vessels for the MIRACLE OF LIFE!!
Actually, in some good news, research appears to be showing that non-pasteurized cheeses are no more risky than pasteurized cheeses. Though whether that means the pregnancy Nazis will permit all cheese or ban pasteurized cheese, too, remains a mystery.
BR(whoops, I said Nazi, I loose)C
