However, Fiona Ford, a research nutritionist from the University of Sheffield, said that in the absence of strong evidence that the same effect was present in humans, it would be wrong to make women feel guiltyabout eating some unhealthy snacks during pregnancy.
That your wife was laid off so soon after disclosing her pregnancy and that she was the only one laid off, raise questions about whether her employer may beguilty of pregnancy bias, says Peter C.