Husband thinks I need to avoid pineapple

[Anonymous]

It is an old wive's tale. Just a suggestion, eat what you want when your husband isn't around. This is not worth arguing over.

Pineapple juice is a natural cough remedy.

[Anonymous]

All these superstitions piss me off. My Asian hair dresser freaked out when I was drinking ice water a few days after having a baby. She brought me hot tea and said I could only have warm things. Uh, no thanks. OP, eat all the pineapple you want. I asked my OB about eating it to try to get Labor started after my due date with my third. She said I would have to eat nothing but pineapple and even then it would likely do nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is your MIL in Bangladesh?? My parents are from there and my relatives have lots of superstitions about pineapple, whether you're pregnant or not. Like don't drink chai or milk after eating pineapple.

I'm convinced that there are different breeds of pineapples there that have some toxin (or some pest) that make people sick. My dad claims to know people in his village that have died from eating pineapple, so him and his siblings rarely eat it.

Op here. Wow. This is good to know. Thanks for posting. My MIL doesn't travel to the US so it's not something I have to deal with very often. This is good to know. My husband is Bangladeshi.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm guessing 4:19, 4:22, 4:26, 4:28, and 4:31 are all the same poster. OP, maybe your MIL found this thread.

OP here. Haha. This is non sense. I am still eating pineapple and I ate plenty of steamed deli meat during my first pregnancy. I prefer advice from a doctor on this. I also don't live in Asia like my MIL. Just being in my husband's birth country would be a a huge risk right now. Everytime I go there I get very very sick and end up in the hospital for days.

But if you were in his birth country, you wouldn’t be eating pineapple! So in your MIL’s eyes, it evens out.

[Anonymous]

This is ridiculous. I know that NONE of these wives tale/food things work because I was overdue with my first and no matter what I ate/drank/massaged, she wouldn't come out until they started the Pitocin. So this time around, I'm' worried a lot less about the rumor mill of stuff that's supposed to jump-start labor.

OP your pineapple rice sounds delish, and now I'm craving some. Is your husband controlling other aspects of what you eat/drink/do while pregnant, or is it JUST this one thing? If the latter, I might say just have the rice for lunch when he's not around, is it worth the stress of fighting over it? On the other hand, if it's other things, then the issue is bigger. This could easily snowball out of control once baby is born and he's insisting you follow MIL's "advice" for everything baby-related!

[Anonymous]

That's nuts and it's disturbing that your DH is trying to control what you eat. But, if he's not usually overly controlling I might keep the peace and avoid pineapple.
And yes I'd take him into the OB office and ask about the freaking pineapple.

[Anonymous]

I agree with the others about assessing whether he is controlling in other aspects and likely to insist on your MIL’s childrearing methods.

I would definitely tell him to stuff it until he could show up with a peer reviewed med journal article and eat pineapple in front of him for at least a week or two. ‘Keeping the peace’ if he kicks up a fuss is a slippery slope to walking on eggshells constantly and slowly sacrificing everything to ‘keep the peace’.

[Anonymous]

The concern is bromelain, which is an enzyme that is deactivated by cooking. Pineapple fried rice is fine.

[Anonymous]

https://evidencebasedbirth.com/evidence-using-pineapple-naturally-induce-labor/

[Anonymous]

Im half Bangladeshi and was super curious about this and asked my family. They were VERY insistent that yes of course it causes miscarriage and shocked that I risked this baby (I’m in my third trimester) with pineapple over the winter. Ha! Learn something new every day!

Meanwhile they don’t blink at coffee and tea during pregnancy and that has been linked to miscarriage in the first trimester. So go figure.

My white side of the family had a lot more to say about the risks I would take during pregnancy than my brown family.

I think you’ll benefit your relationship with your MIL and DH by acknowledging the concern, telling them you did research, and asserting you’re moving forward with cooked, non-core pineapple bits based on your informed understanding of the risk.

[Anonymous]

Medical librarian here - looks like another poster already supplied some of this information. Bromelain has been proposed as active ingredient and is only present in fresh pineapple; the canning process destroys bromelain.

Bromelain has been used to cause uterine contractions. Animal research shows that bromelain might inhibit cervical prostaglandins rather than increasing them. There is no research on effectiveness of bromelain to induce uterine contractions.

No known risks are associated with pineapple use in pregnancy.

Source: Rakel, D. (2018). Integrative medicine (Fourth edition.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Im half Bangladeshi and was super curious about this and asked my family. They were VERY insistent that yes of course it causes miscarriage and shocked that I risked this baby (I’m in my third trimester) with pineapple over the winter. Ha! Learn something new every day!

Meanwhile they don’t blink at coffee and tea during pregnancy and that has been linked to miscarriage in the first trimester. So go figure.

My white side of the family had a lot more to say about the risks I would take during pregnancy than my brown family.

I think you’ll benefit your relationship with your MIL and DH by acknowledging the concern, telling them you did research, and asserting you’re moving forward with cooked, non-core pineapple bits based on your informed understanding of the risk.

OP here. I find this hard to believe. Why don't you give examples of what your white family is concerned about? BTW my husband has never referred to himself as being brown. Must be a weird DCUM thing. I never hear it in real life.

[Anonymous]

I must be the worst most selfish pregnant person in the world because I eat deli meat, unpasteurized hard cheese, and drink coffee. Pineapple is the least of my worries. Someone call the authorities!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Im half Bangladeshi and was super curious about this and asked my family. They were VERY insistent that yes of course it causes miscarriage and shocked that I risked this baby (I’m in my third trimester) with pineapple over the winter. Ha! Learn something new every day!

Meanwhile they don’t blink at coffee and tea during pregnancy and that has been linked to miscarriage in the first trimester. So go figure.

My white side of the family had a lot more to say about the risks I would take during pregnancy than my brown family.

I think you’ll benefit your relationship with your MIL and DH by acknowledging the concern, telling them you did research, and asserting you’re moving forward with cooked, non-core pineapple bits based on your informed understanding of the risk.

OP here. I find this hard to believe. Why don't you give examples of what your white family is concerned about? BTW my husband has never referred to himself as being brown. Must be a weird DCUM thing. I never hear it in real life.

Running and traveling internationally were the two big ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Im half Bangladeshi and was super curious about this and asked my family. They were VERY insistent that yes of course it causes miscarriage and shocked that I risked this baby (I’m in my third trimester) with pineapple over the winter. Ha! Learn something new every day!

Meanwhile they don’t blink at coffee and tea during pregnancy and that has been linked to miscarriage in the first trimester. So go figure.

My white side of the family had a lot more to say about the risks I would take during pregnancy than my brown family.

I think you’ll benefit your relationship with your MIL and DH by acknowledging the concern, telling them you did research, and asserting you’re moving forward with cooked, non-core pineapple bits based on your informed understanding of the risk.

OP here. I find this hard to believe. Why don't you give examples of what your white family is concerned about? BTW my husband has never referred to himself as being brown. Must be a weird DCUM thing. I never hear it in real life.

As you’re about to raise your own mixed race child, you may start to hear “white side” and “brown side” a lot more in the future!