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Originally Posted by honeybun  I did heat up leftovers (actually 1 piece) on high in a microwave for about 40 secs. Do you think it's enough? It looked steaming to me. I am so tired of worrying about all this stuff! How did our mothers and grandmothers do without Internet and this modern research?  |
They just didn't worry about it and most of them went on to have healthy pregnancies--and the ones that didn't probably never knew the cause of their loss.
(At least, that's what my mom and MIL said--"They told us not to smoke, and maybe to cut back on the alcohol, and that was it.")
I still find it weird I have not yet once been asked if I always wear a seat belt. I'd imagine I'm at a bigger risk, as is my baby, from a car accident than I am from listeria. There are millions of car accident injuries a year, tens of thousands of deaths, and maybe a few thousand cases of listeriosis.
But, in modern society, no doctor would tell a pregnant woman she should stay away from cars. (How else are we going to get to a zillion prenatal appointments?)
I inadvertently had some soft goat cheese yesterday. (It appeared on a sandwich but was NOT listed in the menu description; I realized about halfway through that it wasn't supposed to be there. It may have been pasteurized, maybe not.) I am not worrying about it.
) and I'm just making sure to heat it in a skillet or use it in a cooked dish. That is what I'd do with any leftover meat that has been around a few days - I am sure any listeria that was there (unlikely but possible) was killed off with the initial cooking.
