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How Much is Too Much?
Indulging Your Pregnant Whims
By Katherine Bontrager
Elizabeth Stein, a certified nurse-midwife practicing in New York City, is bombarded with questions about what guilty pleasures are safe, and her patients don't always receive the answers they want to hear. Some of the top requests for information she hears from moms-to-be are about the safety of junk food, caffeine and alcohol.
"I discourage eating junk food in any form, since I want my patients to grow a 'good-food baby' not a 'junk food baby,' which potentially makes the baby fat, not healthy," Stein says. "An occasional meal is OK, or as I say, an occasional cookie is OK, but not the whole box! I don't want the mom-to-be to feel deprived, but if she struggles, I suggest she look at the junk food item before eating
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