My confessions: I drink Diet Coke about once or twice a week still. I know a little caffeine is okay but I feel guilty about the aspartame! I also eat soft cheese a lot - I figure most of it is pasteurized these days. I just found out caesar dressing is off limits because of the raw eggs, but I'm not giving that up.
Here's the worst... I am seriously considering eating some sushi very soon. It's starting to drive me crazy. Anyone eat sushi while pregnant? Make me feel better! 
coconut / 8430 posts
I drank regular Coke every so often. It made me feel really guilty even though I wasnt over the limit for caffeine.
pear / 1650 posts
First trimester = no rules broken (too scared even for my morning caffeinated tea!)
Second trimester = tea!!! black tea and sometimes regular coke
kiwi / 637 posts
I have had Thai and Chinese take out numerous times, complete with pad Thai and chow mein, which are full of sprouts!
Also have had pizza with deli meat regularly... Although that's heated to steaming so supposedly okay.
I had Brie a few weeks ago... Just a bit but it was delish!
I have soft-to-medium poached eggs every weekend.
nectarine / 2274 posts
I drank bubble tea and Coke was the only thing that kept me alive in my first trimester.
GOLD / watermelon / 14076 posts
I've had poached eggs a couple of times. I also once licked the spoon after making brownie batter--I did it out of habit!
blogger / pomelo / 5400 posts
I'm eating a decent amount of lunch meat and have a diet soda a day. Bad me.
papaya / 10473 posts
Umm, I'm bad.
I eat deli meat about once a week - its a super clean, busy deli so I'm not worried about it.
I split a raw sushi roll with a coworker once.
I drink a small cup of coffee every morning. Sometimes I'll have an iced tea that evening, but I make sure I don't have more than one glass.
grapefruit / 4235 posts
Um, all of them? Coffee, soft cheese, runny eggs, medium rare steak, occasional glass of wine, deli meat...I only didn't have sushi becasue I live in a landlocked state. If we lived closer to the ocean i'd have done that too.
ETA: I ate soft serve too. And unpasteurized cheese.
pineapple / 12802 posts
oh gosh... ummmm...
First trimester = no rules broken! way too scared! 
Second trimester = soft serve ice cream, black tea once a day, deli meat in most of my sandwiches for lunch (unheated), my husband and i really like crystal lite which has aspartame and I usually have a few sips of his water, fried sandwich with a soft egg! eeeeeeep. I've been TERRIBLE.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
I ate soft serve ice cream a lot, along with deli meats & the occasional glass of caffeinated sweet tea.
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
uhm, all of them? except alcohol. i'm too scared for that one.
pomegranate / 3032 posts
Soft serve, i forgot and ordered a turkey club once, occasional coffee, runny eggs - I had eggs benedict last weekend, more days than i care to admit i forget my prenatal
cantaloupe / 6206 posts
I drink coffee almost every day but the rule is under 200mg so I stick to that (only 10 oz/day). I also have eaten raw cookie cough a few times and had runny eggs like twice.
eggplant / 11716 posts
Soft serve, soft cheeses (but they've all been pasutrized, as most brands are), ceasar salad, the occasional runny egg, medium steaks, and sushi with raw fish---I've eaten it all!
cantaloupe / 6669 posts
@mediagirl: I didn't even know queso was off-limits! Why?
@.twist.: I just realized I had a burger with a soft egg on it, too! Add that to the list...
@looch: Go you!
pomegranate / 3331 posts
@daniellemybelle: I ate sushi the night i got my BFP! (was with a friend and was nowhere near ready to share) and then the next night went out for an amazing MEDIUM steak (it was at a super fancy steakhouse so i thought it might be ok?) other than that, i'm trying to be really good through the first tri. after that i plan to break some rules again
cantaloupe / 6669 posts
@Chillybear: Oh man, I forget my prenatal at least once a week... 
I do usually remember the next morning (I take it at night) but I still feel bad!
pineapple / 12802 posts
@Chillybear: Oh man. I ALWAYS forget my pre-natals. For some reason that makes me feel more guilty than the deli sandwich I have for lunch today.
pomelo / 5228 posts
No personal advice, but my SIL was told that sushi is OK as long as the fish was frozen first. (FWIW, this is in a different country)
cantaloupe / 6206 posts
@Mrs.Someone: Yeah i would agree with that - freezing kills the parasites that are a concern.
cantaloupe / 6669 posts
@Pirouette: Oh, let's not even talk about what happened up until I found out I was pregnant! But the placenta is not formed yet so I don't think its AS bad. I was pretty careful during the first trimester, but now that I'm in the second, I am getting pretty tempted...
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
Coffee every day. A few glasses of wine/champagne in the 3rd tri (but not all at one sitting, of course!) And, I didn't cook my steak's to "well done". I just ate them medium instead of medium rare.
cantaloupe / 6206 posts
@daniellemybelle: I had a glass of wine the night of my BFP! But yes, the yolk sac is in charge at that point so I wasn't worried
pineapple / 12802 posts
@Pirouette: Yep, my company xmas party was a few days after my BFP. I totally had a glass of wine with dinner because I didn't want anyone to be suspicious!
pomegranate / 3331 posts
@daniellemybelle: haha, oh yea i was in the drink till it's pink club, but i already knew I was pregnant so i felt really guilty! my DH actually googled like crazy because he doesn't buy the fact that i can't eat raw fish. and he gave me the OK (thanks Dr. Google), but when I went in for my bloodwork the doc gave me a very stern "absolutely no messing around with raw fish or meat less than well done" speech. I was feeling like a bad person, haha.
@.twist.: ha! i'm glad i'm not alone...it's a tough time to have to be social
clementine / 948 posts
i'm still in my first tri and am already a rule breaker -- prob 1 or 2 diet sodas a week, soft serve, occasional deli meat, soft cheese.
grapefruit / 4823 posts
With #1, we celebrated our BFP with sushi...and I ate it during both pregnancies. I've had lunch meat, soft cheeses, soft serve ice cream, runny eggs....
pomelo / 5469 posts
I have runny fried/poached eggs regularly, coffee and coke every day, 1 cup of each.
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
I had a cup of coffee every day (from second trimester on, it made me sick before that), the occasional coke (especially during the first trimester). Once I had runny yolks, but only once because they didn't really appeal to me (eggs at all). At family gatherings I ate brie, had the occasional half glass of red wine (maybe 2-3 times a month) and once had the most glorious turkey sub, unheated--the guy behind the counter kept asking me if I was really sure I didn't want it toasted, lol. I also refuse to eat well-done steak, so when my BIL made it for Christmas (7 or so weeks along) I ate it rare (and every other time I ate it was either rare or med-rare, but the thought of meat turned me stomach so it was very very rare that I ate it).
Oh, and once I ate soft-serve from McDonald's!
I have a very, very healthy baby.
pomegranate / 3577 posts
Geez, I had no idea soft serve was bad. I'm craving sushi like I've never craved sushi before, but since I'm in the middle of Georgia I figure it would be safer to suffer, heh. I've had caffeine here and there, maybe two or three over easy eggs and a medium rare steak. I cannot wait to have a glass of wine without the side of guilt.
cherry / 142 posts
I don't drink soda so that was an easy one to 'give up' but I defintiely still eat deli meat (unheated), had sushi last weekend and never thought twice about it and enjoy an occasional sip of wine or beer. You'd go crazy trying to keep all those rules straight!!
watermelon / 14467 posts
Let's see...I drink regular Coke at least once a week, I eat one piece of DH's sushi when he gets it (no raw, just the cooked stuff), I eat beer cheese queso, I had soft serve ice cream once because I didn't know that's what the restaurant served, and I've eaten pepperoni right out of the package.
So far, baby is doing just fine.
grapefruit / 4120 posts
All of them. Except for smoking, doing drugs and getting totally wasted. I didn't do those things.
nectarine / 2834 posts
I think I had soft serve ice cream 3 days/week (major craving plus it was summertime), definitely had a good amount of deli meat without microwaving it first, and then had 2-3 glasses of wine during my last trimester (but only about 1/2 glass at a time).
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