Yeah, the allergy question is all up in the air. Some experts say you should avoid common allergens in case it predisposes the baby to getting the allergy. But other experts say eating eg peanuts while pregnant would actually protect the baby from developing the allergy! So the long and short of it is, nobody really understands how allergy works yet. Personally, I'm just going to eat as I normally do (i.e. healthily), except for avoiding sorf/blue cheese, alcohol, rare meat, pate etc,. I'm going to try and follow the advice on
NHS direct for what to avoid, but I don't see how avoiding peanuts will stop a baby from getting a peanut allergy. After all, mothers have eaten peanuts for millennia, but peanut allergies are a recent phenomenon, so far as I know. So I'm not worrying about that part.
[Modified by: Astraad on September 05, 2008 01:17 PM]