http://fussbucket.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/pregnant-in-a-bubble/ news and stories from the wonderful, terrible world of parenting Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:39:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://fussbucket.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/pregnant-in-a-bubble/#comment-344 staceyschultz Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:02:02 +0000 http://fussbucket.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/pregnant-in-a-bubble/#comment-344 I agree, the advice on fish is probably the most confusing in all of this. Mostly I just bristle at a lead health story in a newspaper that is based mostly on findings that are speculative. If you look closely at the wording, the links are most often made with words like "might" and "could." I think it breeds a lot of fear. I agree, the advice on fish is probably the most confusing in all of this. Mostly I just bristle at a lead health story in a newspaper that is based mostly on findings that are speculative. If you look closely at the wording, the links are most often made with words like “might” and “could.” I think it breeds a lot of fear.

]]> http://fussbucket.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/pregnant-in-a-bubble/#comment-343 sweetslugabed Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:10:53 +0000 http://fussbucket.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/pregnant-in-a-bubble/#comment-343 And to make things even more confusing, isn't there now a new recommendation that the benefits of eating fish to the fetus's developing brain outweigh the risks of mercury poisoning, so now pregnant women are once again supposed to eat a lot of fish? I pretty much avoided it when I was pregnant with Soli, so once the new recommendation came out I tried to make up for the lost IQ points by eating extra fish while breastfeeding her. But maybe the fish oil was only adding the IQ points back that the mercury was taking away.... On the one hand, it seems like if pregnant women really had to live their lives in a bubble, there wouldn't be so many relatively healthy people walking arond. On the other hand, there are tragic cases of babies being damaged or dying because of something a mother did or didn't do, whether it was something she had control over or not. I don't know where to go with all this advice either. And to make things even more confusing, isn’t there now a new recommendation that the benefits of eating fish to the fetus’s developing brain outweigh the risks of mercury poisoning, so now pregnant women are once again supposed to eat a lot of fish? I pretty much avoided it when I was pregnant with Soli, so once the new recommendation came out I tried to make up for the lost IQ points by eating extra fish while breastfeeding her. But maybe the fish oil was only adding the IQ points back that the mercury was taking away…. On the one hand, it seems like if pregnant women really had to live their lives in a bubble, there wouldn’t be so many relatively healthy people walking arond. On the other hand, there are tragic cases of babies being damaged or dying because of something a mother did or didn’t do, whether it was something she had control over or not. I don’t know where to go with all this advice either.

]]>