{"id":4151,"date":"2018-03-14T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T17:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2018-03-14T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T17:55:19","slug":"useful-pregnancy-related-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/?p=4151","title":{"rendered":"Useful Pregnancy-Related Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I might be alone here, but in my canvassing the interesting literature this morning, I stumbled across this Clinical Expert Series in Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology and thought: &#8220;This is great! I wish we&#8217;d (myself and my wife) had this four years ago!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a concise summary of the evidence (mostly lack thereof) and recommendations for things pregnant women &#8220;should and should not routinely do during pregnancy.&#8221; There&#8217;s so much nonsense floating around on the internet, and so many dark wombat burrows full of sinister imaginings, I almost feel this would be a good document to hand out to pregnant patients with adequate levels of health literacy.<\/p>\n<p>A few highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prenatal vitamins are unlikely to be harmful, but potentially unnecessary for women already consuming balanced diets.<\/li>\n<li>Alcohol consumption up to 7-9 drinks per week does not appear to be harmful, but no specific threshold for safety is known.<\/li>\n<li>Up to 300 mg\/d of caffeine is probably safe.<\/li>\n<li>Examples of good fish are anchovies, Atlantic herring, Atlantic mackerel, mussels, oysters, wild salmon, sardines, snapper, and trout.<\/li>\n<li>Appropriately prepared sushi is unlikely to give you a tapeworm.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Pregnant women should avoid foods that are being recalled for possible Listeria contamination.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Using toxic insect repellent is probably safer than the risk of insect-borne illness, where appropriate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and many more! \u00a0Useful!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDos and Don\u2019ts in Pregnancy &#8211; Truths and Myths&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/29528917\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/29528917<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=emlitofnote\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I might be alone here, but in my canvassing the interesting literature this morning, I stumbled across this Clinical Expert Series in Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology and thought: &#8220;This is great! I wish we&#8217;d (myself and my wife) had this four years ago!&#8221; It&#8217;s a concise summary of the evidence (mostly lack thereof) and recommendations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/?p=4151\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Useful Pregnancy-Related Guidance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Here's everything experts think pregnant women should and shouldn't do (though most is totally unsupported). #FOAMed","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obstetrics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7KesJ-14X","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}