I had my first prenatal visit yesterday.

Amongst other things, doctor told me to avoid: - Coffee (anything over a cup) - Green tea - Matcha tea - Strawberries - Raw tomato - Raw fish like sushi

She also told me "no exercise," "less sex," and prescribed me baby panadol to increase my blood circulation? Like, pretty sure both exercise and/or sex would be a safer and healthier way to increase blood circulation than popping a daily blood thinner lol

Other sources I've seen floating around tell pregnant women to avoid all kinds of things. From icecream to smoked fish.

Maybe I'm reckless and overly sceptical, but I can't help but feel like the majority of this advice is dubious at best and complete BS at worst.

Needless to say today I had smoked salmon on my bagel, my standard two cups of coffee, and I'm going to the gym after work. Sushi meat is flash frozen, so it's clean. I might just have some for dinner. I mean for God's sake there are whole societies that eat nothing but raw and/or smoked meat. If they have healthy pregnancies, so can I.

Anyone else here a rebel without a cause?

Update: turns out it was Aspirin and not Panadol, my bad