Eat 4 2: About this site
When you're pregnant, you've enough going on without having to spend hours researching whether food you want to eat is safe for baby or not.
This site was set up to provide you with a quick yes or no* answer. It aims to be:
- Quick to use, focussing on doing one thing well
- Based on scientific advice with links so you can check it out for yourself
- Mobile friendly so you can quickly access from your iPhone or any other interner enabled phone
* although sometimes the answer is "maybe"
The name?
Is pronouned "eat four two" and is supposed to be a pun on "Eating for two" (with the bonus that the number 42 in inextricably linked with answers to difficult questions)
History
While we were expecting our first baby, we found there was no simple source of information for pregnant women telling them whether certain foods were safe to eat or not. There were government advice sites which didn't cover lots of common foods, book publishers with different advice, and and lots of web forums where lots of people gave conflicting or unscientific advice. You could spend hours reading all these, and still not have a clear answer. If you're out at a restaurant this isn't even an option (unless you have very patient co-diners). This is where the idea for Eat 4 2 was born.