Chores and Eating Healthy

I got a ton of chores done today.  For the past month, Joe and I have been working on clearing out space for the baby.  We’ve been going through all our things and getting rid of stuff we don’t need.  I had a ton of donations for Salvation Army sitting in my closet including books, board games, clothes, bookshelves and my wedding dress.  I had a few goals for clearing out space.  I had three shelves full of movies and video games and I wanted to get rid of two of them.  I cleared them out and sold a ton of games and movies and then put the rest in CD wallets.  I’ve been wanting to donate my wedding dress for a long time but it was hard to part with.  It made me very happy but I’ll never wear it again and it’s honestly just taking up closet space.  Maybe it can make someone else who can’t afford a new wedding dress happy. 

So I made all the donations to Salvation Army today.  Went to Target and bought an item off my baby registry with a giftcard I received.  Went and sold some video games and movies.  Went to the bank to get quarters for the laundry and deposit all the money I got from selling my stuff into our joint saving account.  Then I had lunch at Panera Bread.  I was trying to eat a little better so I ordered a black bean soup and a chicken apple walnut salad.  I’ve been craving beans during my pregnancy and I really like that salad.  I forgot however that they put feta cheese in it.  I ate around it but did actually end up eating some.  This lead me to feel guilty for the rest of the day.

Dietary restrictions while pregnant are kind of weird and sometimes hard to remember.  Obviously no sushi which is what I miss the most.  No raw fish or undercooked meat or eggs.  No soft cheeses because they’re made with unpasteurized milk (includes feta, brie and mozzarella).  No deli meats or hot dogs unless it’s cooked to steaming because of a certain type of bacteria that is harmful to fetuses.  No deli mayonnaise or homemade aioli because they’re made with raw unpasteurized egg yolks.  Store bought mayonnaise is okay because it’s pasteurized.  Some soft cheeses are made with pasteurized milk too but you have to read the labels to be sure.  There are certain types of seafood to avoid because of mercury but they aren’t types that I normally would consume anyway. No caffeine or alcohol obviously (caffeine passes through the placenta easily right to the baby and alcohol deprives the baby of oxygen).  No raw vegetable sprouts. Now that I think about it, I took a Thai food cooking class last week and they had raw bean sprouts in the spring rolls which I ate without even thinking about it.  It’s hard to keep track of everything but if there’s any risk something could harm my baby, I definitely want to avoid it.  You have to be so conscious of what you eat while pregnant.