There's a lot of confusing advice about eating cheese while pregnant. We lay out the rules (and the risks).
I don’t remember what dietary advice my midwife offered when I was pregnant with my first daughter, but I clearly recall the directions my second time around. Maybe that’s because at the end of the standard “don’t consume” laundry list I was told not to eat unpasteurized cheese, “like soft cheese or blue or…well. You know.”
If a cheese is less than 60 days old, it must be made of pasteurized milk. If a cheese is more than 60 days old, certain varieties may be made of pasteurized or unpasteurized milk, because the raw milk cheese has aged long enough to kill any potential harmful bacteria. These legal technicalities became deeply relevant when my job as cheese-guide means helping a pregnant woman navigate a counter with 300-plus cheeses. What should she get? What’sStandard medical advice tells you to avoid unpasteurized cheeses and stick exclusively to the pasteurized ones. But given the 60-day rule, the pasteurized choices will be disproportionately soft cheeses, as in, the ones that some doctors suggest pregnant women to avoid.
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