Mums-to-be often feel guilty about the food they crave in pregnancy. Georgie and Phil discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.👇👇👇
❓❓❓ According to NHS recommendations, which of these foods should pregnant women NOT eat?
a) chips
b) oily fish
c) smoked salmon
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Vocabulary:
✔️(to be) eating for two - (idiom) to be pregnant
✔️go haywire - stop working properly
✔️could count (something) on one hand - used to emphasise that something does not happen very often, or that there are only a few such things
✔️binge - occasion when you do something to excess, for example eat, drink, or spend money
✔️cat-o’-nine-tails - (in the past) a whip made of nine strings used to punish prisoners;
(now) means by which someone criticises themselves as a form of self-punishment or because they feel guilty
✔️give (yourself) a hard time - treat (yourself) badly by criticising or blaming yourself
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