Ill-advised things that I did when I didn’t realise I was pregnant:

1Took half a valium
2 Drank a double vodka
3 Ate sushi
4 Ate street food from a fly-blown, filth-strewn gutter in South East Asia
5 Ate more sushi, this time from a street stall in a fly-blown, filth-strewn gutter in South East Asia
6 Drank wine that tasted like a combination of lighter fluid and jam (not much of this to be honest – even the most dedicated drinker must drawn the line somewhere).
7 Ate braised liver and grilled chicken’s hearts (yum)
8 Shellfish – let’s not even go there.
9 Bungy jumping
10 Paragliding
11 Rode on a Hello Kitty Ferris wheel perched precariously on top of a giant Asian super-mall – this might not sound scary but in fact it was – you feel that all the effort had gone into the cute! factor and very little into the engineering and maintenance.
12 Took an extremely long haul flight

Ok, so a couple of these aren’t true but you get the picture. I’m like the poster girl for irresponsible early pregnancy behaviour. I might as well have been snacking on used petri-dishes. Subsequently I have done my utmost to stick to the rules but every time I think I have it covered, I discover there is some other innocuous thing that puts my pregnancy in peril. Parma ham? Seriously? Ooops…