More important than anecdote != data is that medical advice changes :) My grandmother was recommended both to drink lots of Guinness to help her low iron in pregnancy, and to smoke mentholated cigarettes to help her bad chest. I don't recommend you do either of these (her children came out ok, but she died of emphysema).
Your mother is presumably younger than my grandmother, so further away fom the Dark Ages of medicine.
Of course, whether you choose to view the long list of pregnancy-forbidden foods as new and important medical advances or pointless and poorly evidenced mithering by the doctors of today is a different question :)
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More important than anecdote != data is that medical advice changes :) My grandmother was recommended both to drink lots of Guinness to help her low iron in pregnancy, and to smoke mentholated cigarettes to help her bad chest. I don't recommend you do either of these (her children came out ok, but she died of emphysema).
Your mother is presumably younger than my grandmother, so further away fom the Dark Ages of medicine.
Of course, whether you choose to view the long list of pregnancy-forbidden foods as new and important medical advances or pointless and poorly evidenced mithering by the doctors of today is a different question :)