Pregnancy mythbusting: from ‘eating for two’ to pineapple bringing on labour

The idea that women need to eat a lot of extra food when they are pregnant has endured, but it’s not the only nonsense expectant parents have to put up withThe myth of “eating for two” endures partly because it kind of makes sense, but mainly because it is so appealing. In a survey of 2,100 women, the National Charity Partnership (NCP) found that two-thirds of women did not know how many extra calories they needed during pregnancy (a measly 200 a day – something like, the