Because I only have to support my own body instead of growing another. On the other hand, whatever can harm an embryo because it is much smaller than me, will in a way also harm me.

I wont need Vitamin B-12 as much as a pregnant woman, but it wont harm to stay vary of things that might harm the child.

Just to add to my initial comment. There's studies about the most common sweeteners (erythriol not included), and they put the risk at low, but wont recommend anything because the datatset is too small to come to a definite conclusion. So it might not even be problematic. Would you risk it though?

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

When you say "I don't need X because I'm not pregnant" it looks like a contradiction when you say "I should avoid X even though I'm not pregnant". There are specific reasons purely because of a person being pregnant that they should avoid or consume certain matter, so I see the blanket statement as overly simplistic (but not wildly outrageous).

When we had our recent child we avoided everything that had any chance of a negative impact (and it's easy to do when the pregnant person is a knowledgeable nurse who takes care of pregnant mothers every day). Why take a chance, but it's really "Why should a pregnant person take a chance?".

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What does your wife say about this? Is it better to not take those things even when not pregnant?

We're just two laymen arguing for the sake of arguing at this point.