My VITEX Journey

[Butterfly Spirit]

Yes mam, and it's STILL GONE this am! I love love love that Progesterone! I know I can't forget to take it.. I have three cell phone alarms for each time I take it during the day!

Thank you for sharing your experiences with lunch meat and cinnamon!
So because of the nitrates don't consume it at all? Dang it, it's good! LOL

I know I'm being silly about the cinnamon. You guys enjoy it and don't worry! I will wait!

[Mochagirl]

All this talk of cinnamon rolls made me hungry, so I bought one this morning and just finished it a few minutes ago .

For me I don't eat deli meat because of the risk of listeria. I probably should worry about nitrates but I don't - I just had bacon this weekend. I do eat deli meats if they're hot - like in a grilled panini - but I only have things like that once in a long while.

Oh, and I'm soooo happy the progesterone is working!!!!!

[dramabird]

For me I don't eat deli meat because of the risk of listeria.

Same here ... I don't eat deli meat/lunch meat or hot dogs when I'm pregnant. I figure that's such a tiny sliver of the total things we can eat overall (esp. after the sway diet where it felt like so many things, including ALL meats, were off the table) that I can easily do without it for nine months. Pregnancy is tough enough to achieve and m/c so devastating, that I figure it's one easy thing I can do to prevent trouble. My mother did lose a baby at 20 weeks when I was a toddler and she believes it's because she changed cat litter (which can be a vector for toxoplasmosis ... I originally miswrote this as listeria and edited to fix; also, I should add that it wasn't her cat, it was my grandmother's, so my mom wouldn't have had the long-term exposure to help with immunity).
As Atomic said, you can't freak out about everything ... and most m/c are chromosomal and not caused by anything that moms did. But for me personally, I'm more comfortable taking a temporary pause on Oscar Mayer and his ilk. (I totally still eat bacon, though!!! Mmm, bacon!!!)

[Mochagirl]

I do eat hot dogs and sausages if I've made them myself and know they've been heated enough to kill any listeria, but with my first pregnancy I didn't touch them at all. I'd still never get one from an outdoor cart or at a large organized BBQ because you never know with those of they've been cooked long enough.

[auroara78]

Drama, now I'm freaked out a little...I have changed cat box 2-3 times this preg, i thought the biggest issue with catbox during pregnancy was the toxosomplomous (sp?) thing? I've had the cats for over 10 years, so I assumed I'd already been exposed years ago to the toxompolus....listeria huh? My DH always makes a fuss when I say I cannot change the cat box because of the pregnancy so when it gets too bad I put on gloves, a mask and make sure I"m covered up and do it, then take a shower right afterwards...I'm going to have to look this up.

[Mochagirl]

Ack! I wrote a big long reply on my phone then tapatalk crashed and I lost it. What I said was that Toxoplasmosis is the main worry with cat litter, but both my midwife and vet assured me in the past that my chances of getting it were almost zero. First of all, if you have an indoor cat they're unlikely to get it in the first place, and if you've spent a large chunk of your life around cats you've likely had it before anyway and are now immune. I changed the litter myself through my whole pregnancy with ds3 because dh despised the cat and there is no way I could have gotten him to do it.

[Butterfly Spirit]

We have a kitty too and we all love her.. we didn't want to get rid of her. DH is changing the litter.
And I don't breathe it in. I leave when he changes it, and I'm cautious when I walk by it.
Stupid toxoplasmosis.

[auroara78]

Mocha, thanks that is very reassuring! My DH does do it most of the time but sometimes I gotta pitch in to get it done.

[dramabird]

Drama, now I'm freaked out a little...I have changed cat box 2-3 times this preg, i thought the biggest issue with catbox during pregnancy was the toxosomplomous (sp?) thing? I've had the cats for over 10 years, so I assumed I'd already been exposed years ago to the toxompolus....listeria huh? My DH always makes a fuss when I say I cannot change the cat box because of the pregnancy so when it gets too bad I put on gloves, a mask and make sure I"m covered up and do it, then take a shower right afterwards...I'm going to have to look this up.

In looking over my "I'm expecting" app, it does look like I confused the two. I thought listeria was involved in both deli meats and the kitty litter thing ... but it looks like the latter is toxo, not listeria. Sorry about that ... I will edit my post to fix.

Also, in my mom's case, she had changed the kitty litter at my grandmother's house. So it wasn't her cat and she hadn't had the regular exposure. I figure that if you CAN have your DH or someone else do it, it sure is good to be on the safe side. But each of us has to do what's best for her and what fits into her life. (No cats for us, as DH is quite allergic!! )

[Mochagirl]

We don't have a cat anymore since we had to put her to sleep last Fall, so I don't have to worry about it anymore.