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What Megnut Ate While She Was Expecting

Posted by Ed Levine, July 23, 2007 at 3:10 PM

Serious Eater Meg Hourihan (aka "Megnut") weighs in on the "what to eat when you're pregnant" issue with her usual blend of passion, intelligence, and common sense:

Every pregnant woman needs to find her own balance, and it's not going to be the same for each. For me the anxiety of worrying about what I ate was worse than actually eating it. Early on, I was so worked up I wasn't gaining enough weight. And that's a much worse consequence for a developing fetus.

Why take any risk? Because life is risky. Are you going to stop driving because you're pregnant? Are you going to stop leaving the house? I found my balance between enjoying food and tolerating risk, and it included the occasional Wellfleet on the half-shell. It's easy to get overwhelmed by all the recommendations and to live in fear of every bite of food you put into your mouth. But that makes for a very stressful, anxious, long nine (plus) months. And that certainly isn't good for the fetus.

Meg and her husband, blogger Jason Kottke, brought young Ollie over to Serious Eats world headquarters last week, and he's a cute little bugger. And, as my mother-in-law told me after seeing our son, Will, for the very first time (when he was all of one day old), "I think he's very bright."

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