Unplanned Pregnancy & Milk, Cheeses, and Ready to eat Meats

A pregnant woman shold follow these guidlines when eating ready to eat meats, cheese or drinking milk while pregnant:

• Do not eat raw hotdogs or lunch meats (including deli meats, i.e. ham, urkey, salami, and bologna) unless they are reeated until steaming hot.
• Do not drink unpasteurized milk or fods made from it.
• Avoid soft cheeses (feta, brie, Camembert, Roquefort, blue-veined, queso blanco, queso fresco or Panela) unless the cheese is labeled as made with pasteurized milk.
• Do not eat refrigerated meat spreads.
• Avoid smoked refrigerated seafood.

Healthy pregnant women that eat the above foods are more likely to get ill from a bacterium called listeriousis than most other people. If a pregnant women has eaten the above foods and develops severe headache and stiff neck she should contact her health care provider.

Info from the March of Dimes

Christian Child Placement Service
http://www.adoptnewmexico.org/
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