Just curious if anyone continue their coffee intake while pregnant. I went cold turkey while I was pregnant with DD. These days, I've been so tired and ended up drinking 1 cup of coffee and feeling a bit guilty as I'm enjoying the coffee. I'm not a coffee addict, but I love to have one every morning before I was pregnant. Well, now, so far, I've only had 3 cups of coffee in total for this pregnancy. Of course, the 3 cups of coffee are drank on separate days. As is, I already feel so bad for drinking that one cup of coffee.... but it helped so much since I was so tired and it really made my day.
I know that studies said it's okay to consume 3 small cups of coffee (150mg of caffeine) per day. I'm far from this but am curious to know if anyone kept their one cup of coffee per day during their pregnancy! Thank you in advance for all replies!
I did. I even had 2 on occasion.
I also drank coffee while I was breastfeeding and it didn't seem to affect my bubbas at all. I never drank it in the afternoon just in case it kept them awake but on the days I didn't have a coffee I didn't notice any differance.
i had decaf, i was big coffee drinker before i got PG...and it was weird converting to decaf however i got used to it in no time and couldn't taste the difference!
I was/am a cup a day girl too. I had to give them up and switch to decaf for a the first three months breastfeeding due to DS having reflux issues with the cafiene, but I am back on the morning coffee now, with no effect on DS anymore !!!
I actually craved the taste of coffee with my last pg - I drank a dare espresso iced coffee nearly every single day of my pg as well as having 2 cups a day LOL. He was fine, a gorgeously calm baby. The small amount of coffee in instant is nothing compared to if you were having brewed coffee or espresso's etc.
Hi!! I am a little early to be jumping in to this forum but at ten weeks today I thought I'd just have a peek!
Coffee is something very close to my heart. My doc says there is no medical reason to give up coffee. I did some research and found that the study that most of this no-coffee junk comes from was done on rats. To cause the same defects as were found in the study, the equivalent amount of coffee a 70kilo woman would need to drink is 600 cups per day! Obviously a bit more than most of us would drink. Other studies I found indicate that anything less than 5 per day is nothing to worry about. One other thing noted is that there is often a general correlation where people who drink loads of coffee may also smoke more, consume more sugar, drink more alcohol, drink less tea and water, and eat less well than those who tend to drink less coffee. This is a bias that is not always taken into account in medical studies.
Of course all of that is only in relation to pregnancy. As we all know there are plenty of other ways that drinking too much coffee can affect us.
I would love to be drinking my daily 2 cups of coffee but unfortunalty my pregnant brain has decided that coffee at home makes me sick! Weirdly, I can drink a cup when I go out? Placenta brains are very mysterious
Anyhoo - hope you are all doing well! See you in a few weeks
We have an espresso machine at home and was very bummed out when I thought I couldn't drink it thinking it would have a higher caffeine content then instant coffee. Well I did some research and there is actually less caffeine in the espresso. Although the do still say you can have 2 -3 cups of instant coffee a day!
i say 1 cup of good coffee a day would be fine, if you are a regular coffee drinker. In fact, with decaf, there may be less caffeine, but there are heaps more chemicals!!
Hot or cold chocolate or just eating chocolate of course does contain caffeine but not as much. I love dark chocolate to eat, but this has more caffeine so I try to limit it.
I also enjoy a chai latte about once or twice a week. Yum!!
I however, noticed a change for the good when I gave up chocolate when breastfeeding. I hated it for the first week, but quickly got used to not having it.
My first question to my GP when i found out I was UTD was "do i really have to quit coffee" LOL
he said as long as it's not 22 cups a day then no probs. I have always been a 1 proper shop bought latte a day and i've continued to be so right through being preg and will continue to do so.
i think i would probs die if i didn't have one in the morn i hate to imagine my moods being worse than they currently are! LOL
I did just read recently in a pregnancy mag... sorry dont recall which one... but it said less than 4 cups a day is fine.
i have only ever had 1 or 2 at most but since being pg i cant stomach it. I still love the smell and feel like having one when i smell it... but as soon as its in i mouth its just NO WAY!
I'm in the UK and read an article last weekend that revised caffiene limits from 3 coffees (or 6 teas) per day to 2 coffees (or 4 teas). So I really don't think you need to worry. I think we all have a tendency to over think these things. Our mothers' generation never worried about stuff like this and we all turned out pretty healthy, no? So enjoy your cup without guilt!
Wow, it's been awhile since I last came to BB to check the posts out as I was out of internet due to moving. I couldn't wait to hear more what others have to say. These past few days, I have been drinking one instant coffee a day as the moving has really made me more tired than I could imagine. Having said that, I raised an issue to my mother and asked her whether she drank coffee while she was pregnant with my brother and I. Well, she said that while she was pregnant, she loved jasmine tea and never really counted how many cups of those did she had with us. Well, both my brother and I are okay. Of course, tea has less caffeine when compare to coffee. I think "everything in moderation" suits best. I think part of the pregnancy make us worry more. Nowadays, there are so many m/c or unexplained medical illnesses, which is why we, mother nature, do make us worry more. Gosh, I still remember I was overworried while I was pregnant with DD. And when she was born, I thought back and laughed at myself. Unfortunately, with this pregnancy, I still have certain worries which I would probably laugh at when DD/DS is born.
I am so glad that I don't have to give up my cup of coffee in the morning. Sad enough to give up my Starbucks espresso.... but am quite content with my instant coffee in the morning! YAY!!!
Did you drink coffee while you were pregnant?
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i hate to imagine my moods being worse than they currently are! LOL
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