You will find when you are pregnant well meaning people will try to offer you tips and advice concerning your pregnancy and what you can and cannot do. Some of this information will be outdated and could potentially cause harm to your baby, so if you are given any advice you are unsure about, always check with your midwife first.
They will tell you that in their day, you could eat what you wanted and nothing happened to them, what has actually happened is that with advances in scanning and increasing knowledge, doctors have been able to pinpoint some potential, preventable causes of miscarriage and birth deformities, and this information would not have been available in our grandmothers era or even our mothers generation.
