Monday, October 19, 2009

Food, food and more food...

Every nationality, race, religion, auntie, uncle has a list of "what to eat" and "what not to eat" during pregnancy...sigh...

To avoid...
- Coffee (by doctor)
- Alcohol (by doctor)
- Ginseng (by book)
- Dried Longan (by book)
- Raw food such as sashimi (by all...)
- Shark (due to mercury content)
- Stingray (by serene @ Oct2009)
- Mango (by serene @ Oct2009 supposed to thicken your blood and also increase blood pressure)

To reduce...
- Grapes (due to high sugar content, by book)


To consume...
- Lots of water
- Birdsnest @ 2nd trimester onwards
- Coconut water @ 3rd trimester. Green thailand coconuts

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