PREGNANCY MYTHS

Hello Yummy mummies, hope we are all doing great with our tinnie-winnies either still in the incubator or we are holding them, please do enjoy yourselves whichever be the case.

What actually inspired me to write this issue is a TV programmme I watched over the weekend, Dr. Ketch’s Show, She talked about pregnancy myths in our society. Every pregnant woman would have at one point in time told not to do something or to do something more, but here are a few of the myths I was able to gather, please enjoy and laugh also because some of them are a laughable item.

• Do not eat egg at the early stage of the pregnancy so that your baby’s skin doesn’t come out looking leprous.

•  Do not eat fish so that your child doesn’t steal later in life. 

•  Do not go to the hospital so that you will not be given Folic acids and iron drugs so that your stomach won’t grow so hard and big so that the woman will not go through caesarian section to deliver.

•  As soon as a baby is born, he or she should be given a thorough bath, if possible with the local sponge because the baby is coming from a very dirty place.

• When you are pregnant you shouldn’t tell anyone because you don’t know who might want to witch hunt you.

• Tie pebbles or safety pin around your wrapper or cloth so that the evil roaming during the day and night will not enter into your stomach to be born as a child by the pregnant woman.

•   Do not eat snail when you are pregnant so that your baby will not drool all the days of his or her life or if you ate it while pregnant you must eat it when you give birth so that your baby can suck it from the breast milk and avert the drooling curse.

•  Do not let anyone cross your leg while you are seating so that your baby doesn’t end up looking like the person especially when it is someone you do not like or know.

•  You are eating for two so you must eat two portions of whatever food you are eating otherwise your baby comes out looking like a tiny lizard.

• This one is ridiculous: pregnant women shouldn’t drink cold water so that she doesn’t end up giving her unborn child asthma, pneumonia or other respiratory diseases. And also that taking cold water will make your baby big.

• All pregnant women have morning sickness, if they don’t that means they are having a boy.

•  Bending down while pregnant will cause your baby to be dizzy.

• This is the hit of it all: Placing a knife under the bed when you are in labor to enable a painless labor.

These are just a few as I said earlier and they are quiet laughable, how can you say a pregnant woman should eat egg or fish which has Omega-3 fatty acids, shouldn’t take folic acids, these are what helps the baby’s brain development and vision, so also snail. Who says you should eat two portions of food because you are pregnant, eat now body go tell you when you are not comfortable with yourself, eat balanced diet at moderate portion. The cold water issue, before the cold water travel down to get to the baby it is already warm. And who says a baby is coming from a dirty environment, the baby is enclosed in a sac with amniotic water, swimming in there for Christ sake, it is only at the passage of coming out that he or she is stained with blood and the first cleansing a baby should have is with the olive oil and not exposed to cold. I heard a story of a lady who went to a birthing center to give birth, after the baby was out the old women there washed the baby with hot water and the local sponge to make him clean, before the lady got home with the child, the baby had died. Please and please let’s heed reasonable and sensible precautions so that our labor will not be in vain.  

Someone told me one day that I should not eat banana, that it will make my baby fat, I wonder what a pregnant should eat o.                                                                                                    

Anyone wants to share what pregnancy myths you know or heard, please feel free to do so.

Thanks for stopping by.

Tytylurpe.