Did I harm the baby?

[fertilitymoms]

I'm 6 weeks and 6 days today and I just found out that Tiramisu, deli meat, sprouts, hotdogs and cookie dough are no-nos for pregnancy. Since I've been pregnant, I've been eating sandwiches made by my DH that has shredded chicken deli meat with sprouts on them and also Blimpie's Best sandwich. I had Tiramisu the other day and I've had Ben & Jerry's cookie dough ice cream. Also, I usually don't eat hotdogs but for some reason I ate a hotdog sandwich after my DH and I watched Indiana Jones last week. Great!!! I ate all the bad foods. I'm so freakin' out right now cuz I don't know if I harmed the baby. Do you think I harmed the baby?

Help!

[messiejessie]

You can have things like deli meat and hotdogs as long as they are heated to 160 degrees before you eat them.  That's like 30 seconds in the microwave.  The reason they say not to eat them is because there is a higher risk of food poisoning with them.

[kennedydp5]

oops...  you're not supposed to eat cream cheese either?!?!?!  dude...  i love bagels!!!

[Brittny27]

listeriosis (listeria) is a food born illness that can take up to 8 weeks for you to even start to get sick from. One of the reasons why it's so hard to figure out where it came from. I had to do a huge research paper on it for my safety and sanitation class in culinary school.
If the lunch meat is pasteurized then you are safe. There are a few brands out there that are safe.  Stay away from soft cheeses though they are the most common for listeria.  You can have hard cheese like cheddar.  Just not brie, feta, goat, cream cheese,  and other soft cheeses.  

[kennedydp5]

i agree that you're fine!  the only thing on that list that i really don't eat is tiramisu only b/c the place i used to get it from is closed down!  and i've even eaten "very" small amounts of cookie dough while prego before.  i didn't even know about the lunch meat thing until this pregnancy (my 4th) and i mean come on you gotta have a sandwhich!!!  i didn't know there was anything wrong w/ eating hotdogs though...  i thought as long as what you were eating was cooked it was fine...  what's up w/ the hotdogs???

[spade22]

You are fine.  The reason to avoid the foods you describe is because they can harbor certain bacteria (listeria) that can make  you, and hence baby, very sick.  If you didn't get food poisoning then you have nothing to worry about.

[NikiNoo]

I doubt it very much.
If it was shop bought Tiramisu then it's probably fine, as it's raw eggs that are the no-no. Deli meat - well, if it were bad then you'd be feeling ill by now i guess (although best to avoid it). I've not once been told to avoid sprouts, in UK or here in Germany.

All you can do it start over - you'll do more harm to baby by worrying about what's done.

Here is a list of food to avoid from the UK
http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/agesandstages/pregnancy/whenyrpregnant/#cat226049