New Born Baby: Foods to Avoid During Pregnancy

After going through much research, below are the overview of foods to avoid while going through pregnancy:
Avoid Unpasteurized Food
Risk: Unpasteurized food that contain Listeria bacteria may cause miscarriage or harm the fetus

Unpasteurized Cheese

Avoid Uncooked Food
Risk: Uncooked food contains bacteria or parasites (e.g. Toxoplasmosis) that can cause harm to fetus
- Ensure meat are fully cook (e.g. well done steak)
- Ensure egg are fully cook
- Avoid sushi food as to avoid eating raw fish
- Avoid food that contains raw ingredient such as raw egg

Fully Cook Meat

Fully Cook Egg

Avoid Sushi food

Avoid Food with High Vitamin A
Risk: Too much Vitamin A can cause problem to fetus development
A pregnant women is recommended by Institute of Medicine to get 2,565 IU of Vitamin A daily.
3 ounces of cooked beef liver contains 27,185 IU of Vitamin A.
3 ounces of cooked chicken liver contains 12,325 IU of Vitamin A.
A rough guide: 3 ounces = 85 grams

Liver

Avoid Chilled Ready-to-Eat Foods
Risk: To avoid harmful bacteria like listeria that can harm the fetus

Pate

Pre-packed Sandwich

Ensure Fruits and Vegetables are Wash Before Eaten
Risk: To avoid harmful bacteria in the fruits and vegetables that may had contact with soil, damaged leaves, etc

Avoid Certain Type of Fruits and Vegetables
- Avoid eating raw bean sprouts because the growing procedure could contain harmful bacteria to fetus
- Pineapple contains a small amount of bromelain enzyme that may cause diarrhea or induce labor. For safe side purpose, it's best to avoid during 1st and 2nd trimester.

Bean Sprout

Pineapple

Avoid Seafood with High Mercury or Shellfish
Risk:
- Mercury are harmful to fetus
- Do avoid shellfish as part of precaution as shellfish contains virus, bacteria or toxin which are harmful to the fetus. Example of shellfish are: oysters, mussels, scallops, clams, prawns, shrimps, crabs, crayfish.
Highest Mercury Seafood (Avoid Eating)