I really want a tuna wrap from this one place near my work... now.. im 7 weeks.. and I have heard tuna period while pregnant is just not safe. the place I get it from is an organic and really healthy restaurant to get food from. But I just dont want to risk anything. Is it really ok for me to have tuna?
Holy COW I was DYING for a Tuna Swiss melt from the Ground Round while pregnant. And ate them all the time (easy since my husband was a General Manager!)
Three pregnancies, three healthy teenagers.
Maybe I just got lucky?
(And I'd've killed a man for Jolly Ranchers!)
:)
There is a VERY small amount of foods that you can't eat at all and most of them are not things that you would eat everyday any way. They only suggest that you don't eat tuna everyday but it is actually really good for you to eat while you are pregnant. I would talk to your Dr. when you go and you will be surprised what you can eat that most people (not dr.s) say you shouldn't. You can even have caffine when you are preganat....you just have to cut down. I think it is like 200mg a day which is about one cup of coffee. The important things is that you eat what fills you up and go with your cravings because they sometimes are telling you what your body needs at that time. I am 22 weeks preganant and I eat whatever i want and my Dr. said that it is fine as long as I am getting a variety of foods and to make sure I take my viatmins. Eat what you want...it is not as serious as our society as made it out to be.
I am a midwife. Tuna fish is fine. Just don't eat a can every day. Once or twice a week will not hurt anything. I have three children and did not cut anything completely out. I even had caffeine everyday.
Lisa
Most things are just fine, including tuna. A lot of people freaked out and stopped eating fish altogether because of mercury levels in certain fish. If you're concerned, just type "fish mercury levels" or something similar into Google and find out which types of fish not to eat. I had trouble with tuna during the first trimester of my pregnancies, but only because the smell nauseated me, LOL. Good luck, and try not to stress out too much. You and your baby will be fine! =)
Yes, you can have it. It's fine. 1-2x/ week is perfectly OK.
A lot of the food stuff is overboard.
Eat fresh lunch meat or cook it. Cheeses all sold domestically are pasturized, so you don't need to worry about contamination, really.
Honestly, after 2 kids, I modified NOTHING in my diet and had perfectly healthy pregnancies. My approach was: if our moms did it (save for the no-brainer stuff, like smoking), it's fine. We all came out OK!
I'd just ask them what their source of tuna is...if it's canned, I might stay away from it, but that's just me. I do know that fish in general is fine to have about twice a week (to be on the safe side). It has a lot of good benefits too. Frankly I'm surprised you could stomach that right now. :)
I'm a pretty firm believer in cravings meaning something during pregnancy. If you're craving a tuna wrap, I'd say have it. There isn't much that food you have to avoid.
The biggies are:
- lunch meats (spoil very quickly and produce a nasty bacteria called lysteria) - these are fine if you heat the meat to steaming; that temperature kills lysteria.
- soft cheeses (both salmonella and e-coli can grow in soft cheeses - 99% of the time they are probably fine to eat, but I found it no big deal to abstain from brie, blue cheese, queso blanco, and feta for 9 months)
- raw sprouts (again salmonella and e-coli risk)
- sushi or undercooked meat or fish (same as above)
- unpasteurized dairy products - you're probably not running into any of that unless you live on a farm in France or something
People have also eaten all of the above during pregnancy and gone on to have healthy babies. For me, this is the list my ob and I discussed, and the research that I've done on my own definitely confirmed to me that eating anything on the list above wasn't worth the risk of harming my baby. There are so many other healthy foods out there to enjoy. Congrats!
It is fine to have tuna. Just in moderation. Don't eat it everyday, just maybe twice a week.. just as a precaution. Ask your OB about it when you go again.
My friend is a food scientist- PhD. They have done studies at the lab she used to work at on canned tuna -- each can varies in the amount of mercury per can. Though on average, canned tuna may be OK in moderation -- any single can may have 100s of times the amount of mercury in it that would be safe to consume. I stay AWAY from canned tuna while pregnant. Try chicken salad or egg salad instead. Better safe than sorry.
I stuck to the rule of tuna once a week. it was what my Dr recommended as well as much research I did showed was safe.
I just went for my meeting this morning with the nutritionist Nurse at my OB's office. I am also 7 weeks along, and she said that canned Light Tuna with water is safe 1 time a week.
