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Conference moira::parenting

Title:Parenting
Notice:Previous PARENTING version at MOIRA::PARENTING_V3
Moderator:GEMEVN::FAIMANY
Created:Thu Apr 09 1992
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1292
Total number of notes:34837

569.0. "Pregnant-Fish/Mercury" by JUPITR::LCLARK () Mon Aug 23 1993 14:43

    
    
    
    My friend and I who are both expecting.  Had a conversation on the
    topic of eating certain types of fresh fish.  We were reading in the "
    What to Expect ....." book.  And she remembers reading about not eating
    certain kind of fish because of the mercury content.
    
    Can anyone out there give more insight.
    
    Thanks
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569.1A little informationAKOCOA::DDAVISMon Aug 23 1993 16:429
    I am currently in my 5th month and remember my Doctor telling me when I 
    first found out I was pregnant that I should avoid swordfish, salmon 
    and bluefish.  She said it was because of the high PCB levels in
    these types of fishes.
    
    Hope this helps,
    
    Dona
569.2Stay away from freshwater fish, too.SPARKL::JOHNHCMon Aug 23 1993 18:317
    If you have friends who fish and tend to offer you some their catch
    occasionally, do not accept *anything* from the Concord or Sudbury
    Rivers, Walden Pond, or any body of water in Middlesex County. (There
    are some that provide safe fish, but eating the fish resembles having
    your child play russian roulette by proxy.
    
    John H-C