I’m not convinced based on one study, so many worse environmental factors.

Not something I consumed or desired during pregnancy.

I dare you to try and take a pregnant lady’s chips off her! Eat a balanced diet chips and chocolate!

Potato crisps have a very high salt content. The only ones I know of that aren’t as salty is the Aldi ones. I could also be something either the oil they use or something they add to it

Please I graved salt plus plus whilst pregnancy and ate chips like they where veggies and no issues here

Oh dear, during my first pregnancy half my diet was plain Kettle chips. And chocolate mud cake. I craved them bad. My son turned out to be 9 pound 6 and born before his due date (6 days) so I don’t think it affected his growth. I didn’t eat bags and bags everyday though.

Having hyperemesis for the first trimester and half all i could stomach was chips

Chips aren’t great for you anyway but if it’s all you can keep down then it’s all you’ve got!

Asking a pregnant woman to avoid potato chips is like asking a child to avoid toys… Haha

This makes sense, potato crisps are not very healthy. A healthy diet (not only) during pregnancy is important.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 03 Jun 2019 , 6:49 am

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  I agree – not something I consumed – would have made me ill.

I think as the old saying goes, “Everything in moderation”.

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  • • Mum2archer replied
    • 29 May 2019 , 3:30 pm

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  100% correct! A healthy diet is moderation and variety

All about balance

So how many chips is too many?

Interesting, a balanced diet is super important during pregnancy.

I think too much of anything is bad for anyone.

Interesting beginning to some research but clearly needs to be a lot more developed yet.

there are so many ‘rules’. i know a woman who continued to eat sushi whilst pregnant as her reasoning was that there are a whole lot of Japanese women who still eat it, so why shouldn’t she? Yes we all want to be healthy, but sometimes things like this are the only things that get us through morning sickness. For me it was fries.

I had such bad morning sickness with my first baby, the only thing I kept down was salt and vinegar chips. I had no issues with my pregnancy and had a healthy little boy

Whoops. I had more than my fair share. But I had a male baby and didn’t feel a single contraction until I was a week overdue. So clearly its not set in stone.

I feel like we just need to stick to a healthy diet during pregnancy and not go too crazy with the junk! You cant expect a pregnant woman to cut everything out of her diet but they just need to be mindful not to eat 3 packets of chips in one day. All in moderation

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  • • becstalou replied
    • 27 May 2019 , 12:52 pm

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  I agree you can’t cut everything out but just don’t go over the top on anything.