pregnancy warnings . . .

[the Empress]

. . . on products. Reading the back of some hand cream (yes, I am the kind of person who reads this stuff) it included the warning: if pregnant always consult your doctor before use. But it's *hand cream*. Why would this possibly be a problem?

Anyone know? Or noticed any other strange forbidden pregnant fruit?

[Jono]

I'd imagine the chemicals that'd cross the placenta. Hormones dear! Don't you watch House? If you use the cream, you'll throw their hormones into haywire-ish mode, and end up giving birth to some kind of hairy pubescent mule-child!

[Delts]

I hear LSD should probably be avoided along with crack. I've not seen evidence of this though...

[Bizarre Atheist]

My aunt, who is currently pregnant with her third child, is avoiding all types of pasteurised cheese. Or possibly unpasteurised cheese. Definitely one of the two. This sort of warning comes in stages, though. Next month cheese will be good for you and orange juice will be the bastard foetus-killer.

[RandomMusings]

Not seen any pregnancy warnings, but did once see a packet of peanuts with the message: warning, this product may contain nuts. May contain nuts? May? I bloody hope so!

[Dave the Explosive Newt]

Or possibly unpasteurised cheese.

Not so daft. Lots of infections e.g. brucella, TB can be spread through unpasteurised cheese - in particular listeria, which can cause a nasty meningitis in the newborn.

[Fawksie]

Not seen any pregnancy warnings, but did once see a packet of peanuts with the message: warning, this product may contain nuts. May contain nuts? May? I bloody hope so!

It's been said so many times before, but this is the Sinner and so it will be said again: peanuts aren't nuts.

[Abserdman]

Peanuts aren't nuts! They are technically legumes. So people who say they have a "nut allergy" when they are allergic to peanuts are lying.

[RandomMusings]

I meant nuts in the cullinary sense rather than the botanic sense, but yes - well picked up on for my not making it clear!

Anyway, if a bag of peanuts did not contain nuts, it would just be a bag of peas

[ct3012]

I had a whole booklet of pregnancy warnings that I had to learn for my higher Health and Food Technology at school (a.k.a. glorified home economics). It really put the fear of vitamin A into me... which will make the foetus sprout a third arm/have other general birth defects/give it liver problems if you consume too much, so avoid liver and don't eat too much red meat. And nuts.
And if you don't eat enough foods with folic acid, the baby will get spina bifida and die. And if you don't eat enough calcium your baby will steal all of yours and you will die. And if you don't eat enough iron everyone will get anaemia and die.

It makes you wonder why people put up with being pregnant at all o_O

[novium]

everything about the human reproductive cycle makes me wonder how the human race continues to exist.

[Lid]

in particular listeria, which can cause a nasty meningitis in the newborn.

As opposed to good meningitis?

[Duggeh]

I had good meningitis after I had good hep A.

[the Empress]

everything about the human reproductive cycle makes me wonder how the human race continues to exist.

. . . . storks?

[Duggeh]

You don't want to try sex with Storks, thats how I got the bad Hep A.

[munchingfoo]

Storks don't get Hep A. It must have been something dressed as a stork!

[Haunted]

Someone poke a hole in my idea.

Remove ovaries at birth, freeze eggs, insert hormone releasing implant. Problem solved?

[munchingfoo]

Mechanical failure, fire, or disaster could leave hundreds of thousands of people without the ability to give birth in a matter of hours.

[Haunted]

There's an old phrase about the danger of keeping all your eggs in the same place.
Distribute them to cyrogenic storage around the nation.

[2jays]

Anyone seen the pregnant 15 year old chav on the back of Newcastle Brown Ale? They know the market.