Handling raw meat while PG... do you? - Page 2

[gummibears]

I handle it without issue. I just take proper precaution to wash up afterward and assure that nothing raw comes into contact with a surface that isn't wiped down properly.

[babygrey]

OP, I'll be a voice of understanding here- I'm exactly the same way. I freak out about touching raw meat. and I'm that way when I'm NOT pg. I actually stopped eating meat a year or two ago largely bc of the ick factor and worry about germs. I wouldn't dream of touching raw meat when pg.

I'm not an abnormally anxious person. Really, raw meat is the only thing that actually makes me stressed like that. I personally don't feel like I need professional help, or just need to chill as some of the pp's have suggested. I just need a well-balanced veg diet I mean it is not like, in the first world, we are required to touch raw meat ever, so, to me, it isn't a phobia that merits much attention, just a little adjustment and its gone. I mean, until I saw this post, I hadn't thought about raw meat in a loong time...

My DH is on board, tho (or at least understanding- he cooks his own meat when he wants some) Maybe yours would take over meat-prep for the pg?

I certainly agree that reducing your stress is important, but if that means not touching meat, as long as you pay attention to your diet, that seems perfectly therapeutic to me.

[CherryBomb]

Babygrey, with all due respect, I don't think you understand the OP's history. She's been posting her entire pregnancy of her overwhelming fears regarding food, including compeltely benign things like pizza cooling down on it's way to being delivered to her house. It isn't this one issue that concerns people, it's her very long history of paranoia and panic.

[greenmulberry]

Yes, I handle raw meat that I cook for us, and I feed my dogs a raw diet so I handle their raw meat and all kind of bloody drippy organ meat twice a day, and have been for years and years.

I really think people are way too paranoid about raw meat. In 2006, there were 42,469 DEATHS from car accidents,

But from the time frame of 1996 to 1998, there were only 5,000 deaths from foodborne illness.

(I just found those stats in a simple search, probably could find more up to date ones if I had time, but I think they get the point across)

Why are people so afraid of meat? There are other activities we participate in daily that are much more deadly.

[lillymonster]

Originally Posted by babygrey

OP, I'll be a voice of understanding here- I'm exactly the same way. I freak out about touching raw meat. and I'm that way when I'm NOT pg. I actually stopped eating meat a year or two ago largely bc of the ick factor and worry about germs. I wouldn't dream of touching raw meat when pg.

I'm not an abnormally anxious person. Really, raw meat is the only thing that actually makes me stressed like that. I personally don't feel like I need professional help, or just need to chill as some of the pp's have suggested.

I am usually one to not tell someone that they need to talk to someone, but the OP has posted many times before over things like someone else mentioned: veggie pizza that cooled down in the time it took to get home, lemonade from a chain restaurant, mayo because it had eggs in it.

It saddens me to see someone this anxious over food, and maybe because I was anorexic at one point in my life, I can understand using food as issue for not dealing with other problems and being anxious and stressed over everything you put in your mouth. I know it's not exactly the same thing, but in a way I see a lot of similarities in my past from other posts the OP has made

The OP is due the same month as me, there is still 1/2 the pregnancy to go, and that is a long time to have stress about what you eat. If this was the only post, I would not have an issue, but there have been many.

I went a little off topic, but I am hoping the OPs next half of her pregnancy has a lot less stress.