Please tell me everything was ok. I was so careful when I was pregnant with DD, but I guess it's true that you just aren't as vigilant with #2. I was at a lunch, and they were serving sandwiches. I grabbed a ham and cheese and ate it without thinking, realizing an hour later that I'm not supposed to eat lunch meat!
I don't eat it much regularly, but I didn't avoid it when I was pregnant. When I was in the third tri I ate 2 cantaloupes that were linked to a listeria recall and I didn't get listeriosis and my fetus didn't get it (but that same recal of cantaloupes was linked to at least 1 fetal death). The ham sandwich that you are probably wasn't contaminated with listeria and even if it was there is still a good chance you wouldn't contract listeriosis.
Post by sparkythelawyer on Mar 9, 2016 16:00:14 GMT -5
I lived on ham and salami sandwiches. My OB reminded me that pretty much every Listeria outbreak in the last five years concerned hummus and celery. Practice good food safety, don't go to shitty delis with no foot traffic.
Post by sometimesrunner on Mar 9, 2016 16:00:55 GMT -5
I eat lunch meat all the time this PG. My 1st PG I was super careful and avoided it as much as possible. Every listeria outbreak I've heard in the past four years has been related to produce, never lunch meat. I'm not concerned.
I ate it on occasion. No issues. Every listeria case I read about is for fresh produce, and you certainly never hear OBs telling you to avoid that.
This exactly. I've had a few lunch meat sandwiches pregnant (I don't eat them often when not pregnant either) and nothing has happened. I get annoyed at the lunch meat is horrible for you but no one says don't eat produce!
I avoided it or heated it when I was pregnant with C. Not so much with D. Lots of Subway. But I never had any from the grocery store packaged area. Apparently that was my limit. Ha.
Yes. The amount of money I spent getting turkey sandwiches delivered to my office from there when I was pregnant...it was the only meat I could tolerate so I took the gamble.