I was going to write an agreeing comment but I've changed my mind. My wife avoided soft cheese during pregnancy for the listeria risk. I've looked at the number

I was going to write an agreeing comment but I've changed my mind. My wife avoided soft cheese during pregnancy for the listeria risk. I've looked at the numbers for where we live and it seems there's no real evidence of risk at all: the % of cases over 20 years has remained stable despite food safety messaging. However, my wife yakked up pretty much everything during pregnancy. She had such awful morning sickness that she couldn't really operate properly. So 9 months of constricted eating isn't a big deal on top of that. Risk aversion with your kids is just a natural reaction. Some take it further than others. I would say we've taken it too far as a society but maybe we've just focused on the wrong risks, ie we kept them indoors and then social media made them sad.