Stop Hectoring Mothers and Let Them Get On with Being Pregnant

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LET'S get a big stamp - like the one vets use to mark carcasses in the factory - and stamp every pregnant woman in the country with the word killer! Because with every pint of beer, cigarette, piece of soft cheese, cup of coffee, glass of wine, fillet of salmon, slice of mackerel, they are killing the unborn child within.

And with the best will in the world, they will slip up, oh yes they will. Probably eat a bar of chocolate or have a very spicy curry or go completely insane and risk some swordfish dressed in pate with a garnish of liver, I'm sure Marco Pierre White has a recipe exactly for this, with a can of coke and a bag of peanuts to follow.

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Stop Hectoring Mothers and Let Them Get On with Being Pregnant

Pregnant women can't win really. It's their lot to feel four times larger than themselves for long sleepless nights, worrying about the kicking or lack of it, the expansion of the bulge or lack of it, the morning sickness or lack of it. And on top of all that, everywhere they turn, advice is flung at t...

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