I posted about this a while ago on weddingbee, but I thought I'd ask the question here. Some doctors advise pregant women to avoid soft serve icecream due to listeria risks. Especially from the fast food restaurants since they dont always clean out their shake machines very thoroughly.
Just wanted to know your thoughts on the matter. Are you avoiding soft serve or reducing how much you each or indulging in it!
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I had soft serve once .. but I am pretty addicted to frozen yogurt with fresh fruit! I think they use the same machines as soft serve :-/.
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I eat Pinkberry regularly...oops?!?!
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.....McFlurry anyone? Guilty!
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i avoided it completely. my friend had one every day because they had a soft serve machine in her work cafeteria. her baby turned out fine (although he was born 7 weeks early!)
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@prettylizy: I second that!
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I have been. Thankfully we don't have that many options around here so I'm not tempted a lot. When I do see one, I get the craving, though. Mmmmm....can't wait for certain things after giving birth.
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I eat it whenever I get the craving. I don't crave it very often though, but when I do, you bet ya I will eat it.... like last night!
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Oops! Didn't realize it was one of the things to avoid! There's a pinkberry close to my ob's office, and I would occasionally have it after appointments
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I don't eat it that often anyways but I definitely don't avoid it.
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@owlmom: haha me too! oops! let's just blame it on the pregnancy brain and mean cravings
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I avoided it completely. I followed the list of do not eat foods pretty closely.
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I haven't eaten any but won't go out of my way to avoid it either, and have eaten other foods that are supposed to be listeria risks like deli meat. I feel that listeria is already so rare ( think about 5 cases/million people) that it's unlikely I'll be exposed to it anyway, and it seems like it keeps popping up in places we don't really know about (like cantaloupe or lettuce) just as much as the foods that are supposed to be dangers.
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I've caved and have had a Mcflurry or a blizzard here and there.
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I don’t think I eat a lot of soft serve, but I have been having a ton of milkshakes from a place near my house – like 3x a week. I don’t know if they are soft serve or not, and I don’t really care to be honest. Women all over the world have baby after baby while starving, and our parents and grandparents smoked, drank and ate not ideal diets and we’re all here. I’m not going to get all chicken little about a slice of deli ham or a milkshake. Especially since the most recent listeria outbreaks are on foods that are "safe".
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It's one of the foods I've craved since the beginning, I'll indulge every so often if I happen to drive by a McD's and the craving hits, but I won't go out of my way.
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I never had it even when I was pregnant wtih Moose. I posted on the WB board for this topic too, so I'll say it here to: if something happens, it's nice to be able to look able to look back and know I did everything right.
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I wouldn't order it myself, but I had a few bites of my husband's McFlurry recently. I have chosen to follow the rules pretty closely, but bend the rules on occasion. For example, I had a bite of prosciutto with an arugula salad recently. But, I wouldn't eat a whole deli sandwich.
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The list of "do not" from my doctor was pretty slim. I asked them about things repeatedly because I read about it on the internet and they told me time and time again that it was perfectly fine (soft serve, feta cheese, etc.). But I did totally avoid everything that was on the list from my doctor.
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Oh crap. Didn't know soft serve was on the avoid list! I LOVE yogurtland. I honestly don't remember if I ate any froyo when I was preggers, but I'm gonna have a hard time not eating it when I get pregnant again. -.-
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I haven't, but I don't really eat soft-serve very often anyway. I do eat plenty of regular ice cream, though!
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I did. I didn't hear about this until my 3rd trimester, and figured since I'd been eating it all along I'd just continue.
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I did not know that soft serve was on the do not eat list!! One of my only cravings with RJ was McFlurries so I had one almost every day. I never got sick from it and RJ was totally healthy, born 1 day after his due date.
I avoided all other "do not eat" foods, and I got food poisoning almost immediately after eating a salad at a Thai restaurant that contained nothing on the do not eat list. Probably a cross-contamination issue.
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Soft serve is something I won't miss when I become pregnant. I'm so happy gelato isn't on the list of foods to avoid. Nom nom nom.
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I have. Probably less than 5 times. Frozen yogurt sounds good today!
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I had it before I knew that it was on the no-no list. So now I'm waiting for the Dairy Queen to open up down the street, so I can be one of the first ones to get some (my theory is that, if it's new, it can't have listeria yet, right?) I love blizzards!!
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I have, like twice in the first 20 weeks. I will eat soft serve if I really want it, but like everything else on the "do not eat list" I really look at the statistics of the risk of each food, then go from there, and try to keep things in moderation.
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I at McDonalds cones almost everyday while pregnant.
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I never heard of that. Of course, I didn't really follow all of the "guidelines". It seems like they come out with new "bad foods" every month..... I don't know, seems a little overzealous to me.
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i am with some of the other posts. i don't typically eat it, but if i'm craving it, i'll have some. i admit, i've been bad.... i ate deli sandwiches every once in a blue moon. haven't had sushi, but i eat a lil bit of chocolate every so often too. =T i'll drink decaf if i really want coffee or tea. but my husband says there's SOME caffeine in it even though it's decaf.
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I avoided it. I know that if anything did go wrong and I had eaten stuff on the 'banned' list I would never forgive myself. I worked on the principle of if the worst happened could I live myself. Not gonna risk it for a crummy soft serve.
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I haven't avoided it on purpose, but I just haven't had the craving for it yet. I do love me some Yogurtland and McD's soft serve cones, so I bet I'll be hitting one up within the next 7 months.
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I've eaten it on a cruise ship & then at the frozen yogurt specialty shops. my sis in law is a doctor & she said it would be ok - I mean, how ofter do you hear about soft serve giving someone listeria? I have also eaten sushi once, though {oh my goodness, it was good}, & I made eggnog from scratch the other night & had some. I washed the eggs really well, though. so I guess I've kind of been breaking all the food rules.
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I totally had a small sprinkled cone from DQ this weekend and ate it before I remembered we're not supposed to eat soft serve. Ooops. It was fantastic.
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I posted a way around eating soft serve... by making your own.
http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/you-can-have-soft-serve-while-pregnant
(I wish my thread showed up under 'You might also enjoy...")
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I ate it every day on our baby moon back in December, which was a week before I read that you shouldn't eat it. Oops. But I also eat sushi from select restaurants (doc said it was okay).
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I eat it sometimes. I just try to be careful about where I get it from and make sure I say my grace.
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I ate a giant cone from Costco on Saturday when we decided to TTC. I don't plan on eating it once I'm pregnant!
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I voted other - I've had soft serve once in the past year or so (a banana shake on a 16 hour drive), so I won't be avoiding soft-serve. I probably just won't think of eating any to begin with. We've got a Coldstone and a Bruster's, but I RARELY get soft serve.
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I haven't really been avoiding it because its something I don't generally eat, its been a non issue.
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