new worries

I ate an expired yogurt. I hate yogurt. Once I thought I might try and do the Activia challenge thing so I bought a whole case of it. It sat in the refrigerator and I never ate one cup. It expired and I threw it out. I just couldn't bring myself to eat that nasty dairy product. It smells bad. It's a weird texture. It's not for me. Today I ate an expired yogurt.

Pregnancy seems to make you do things you've never done before. Every day you are bombarded with information on what you shouldn't do. Don't exercise too strenuously but don't take it too easy. Don't eat too much but don't eat too little. Don't eat some seafood but don't skip other seafood. It's all very confusing and if you go back a couple years you can find an article or a guide that will tell you the exact opposite of whatever they're telling you now.

It seems that maybe no one ever knows exactly what to do. The medical professionals have an idea but their information is constantly evolving as new research is coming out every day. Turns out that all this ever changing advice is just unbearably stressful. I'm choosing to take a more hands off approach. Whenever possible I avoid Google. I've blocked WebMD. I sparingly read the information provided by my pregnancy app. This filtering of conflicting information is not foolproof. I read the diet information. I discovered that yogurt with berries would be a wise snack choice. I fought my gag reflex for the betterment of my unborn child. I ate an expired yogurt.

It was only 6 days expired and smelled normal. It was more than likely entirely fine and simply a victim of the early "sell by" date that causes perfectly good food to end up in the trash every day. The problem I'm having with it is not the fact that I ate an expired yogurt but the fact that I ate yogurt at all. It's kind of impossible to wrap my head around. Baby, you aren't even born yet and I'm already doing things I would never have done. Eating the revolting snack that is yogurt. Enjoying it.

That's the surprising part. The yogurt actually wasn't bad. I didn't hate it. I didn't gag. I ate it all up. So yes, I'm changing and doing things I've never done before. They seem to be for the better. For a healthy start to a new future full of happiness and better choices. A future full of growth and love. I'll continue to filter all the information. I'll take some advice to heart and completely ignore the rest. I'll make it through this pregnancy and end up with a child that comes with an entire library more and I'll probably ignore the majority of that too. My one goal is to simply do what feels correct and trust myself. I don't want to waste time worrying about what all the research says. I want to live life and enjoy every moment as time slips away so quickly. Human instinct has gotten us this far right?

Oh, and maybe eat some more yogurt.