Did you drink coffee while you were pregnant?

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.

Yep - one cup a day, in fact having it right now!

Heaven help the world if the world had to put up with Kitt3n without her morning coffee........:angry::whip::hide:

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 :dance: !!!

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.

Wow, I am surprised to hear that many pregnant women drink coffee while pregnant or breastfeeding. My doctor said that I should completely eliminate my caffeine intake even though I was those 1 cup a day of instant coffee person. I have to admit without having my cup of coffee, some days, I look like a zombie! DH always wondered why I look so crappy in the morning, well, I should tell him to stay away from his coffee for a day or two... then I'm sure he'll understand why do I look so washed out in the morning. I had my cup today and boy, it sure felt like I was in heaven. I know espresso is the stronger type so I stay away from it. On occasion, I would have a cup of hot chocolate instead of coffee to satisfy my caffeine urge. Well, now that I have heard from so many of you, I will enjoy my 1 cup/day of instant coffee. This made my day!!!! Thank you girls.:dance:

Naturally in a perfect world we would abstain from anything considered bad, but it's all about moderation - if you were having 6 strong brewed coffees a day then that would be possibly bad, but instant coffee is nowhere near the same. And if you're out and about and want a coffee, ask for a half strength one (which I do all the time anyway as everyone makes it too strong for my liking).

Trillian, it's so good to know about that. I have never thought of asking for a half strength one. When I wasn't pregnant, I love going to Starbucks for a cup of coffee. My gosh, I can't remember the last time I stepped into Starbucks for a coffee! Most likely more than 2 years!!! From now on, if I am in my cravings while driving, I'll stop for a half strength one.... thank you and thank you for the wonderful piece of information!!!:D

No worries Carmen :)

well i stayed away from tea and coffee during first pregnancy! LOL this time i stayed away from coffee for first trimester. i got a piece of paper from hopsital saying you can have 2-3 small cups a day (which i had forgotten about) and now i have a cup of instant maybe 2 times a week. i had forgotten how good it is and have to restrain myself from having MORE MORE MORE! :-)

Hollo,

Yes, coffee is so good and I have to admit that it's hard to refrain from more. But, I guess having 1 to 2 cups a day is okay. Like Trillian said, everything in moderation! So, let us all enjoy our pregnancies with our cup of coffee! YAY!

I went cold turkey .. but easily switched to hot chocolate!!! YUM!!

Last pregnancy I had one nearly every day, except towards the end because I was too hot (it was summer).
This pregnancy I really haven't felt like it at all. Perhaps once the nausea abates some more (read: nausea - you had BETTER abate some more, LOL!) I will go back to one small but well-made coffee a day.

I still have my 1 real coffee every morning - I did last pregnancy and while BF. I was never told to go off it completely and I think the nervous breakdown I would suffer if I did would cause more harm to the baby than 1 cup of coffee a day!

Also I work 3-4 days per week and if I didn't have a cup of coffee before work I would be completely useless.

I didnt touch coffee for first 17 weeks, yuk, but now I have one or two a day. One is always decaf from shops (decaf through the water process) and very rarely I'll have an instant. If the coffee shop doesn't do water decaf (much healthier process) I will get a weak latte.
xo

hi all, i ALWAYS have 1 latte a day and the other times in the day i drink cafene free herbal tea. couldnt do without my latte per day :o

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!

If I had to give up caffene that would mean having to give up coke too!

Me and no caffene = major headache and a pain in someones bum!

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I went cold turkey .. but easily switched to hot chocolate!!! YUM!!

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Funnily enough chocolate has caffeine in it too but not so much as coffee.

For those who are interested there is a list of the amounts of caffeine in different drinks etc here.
They list brewed coffee but not espresso. I think that espresso has less than brewed because it is a quick process. I know that tea has more caffeine if you let it brew for longer and I assume the same is true for coffee.

yep, I am a one a day person too - real coffee - I asked my doctor she said it was fine - all about moderation and I figure there are worse things I could be doing.

Laurin x

I used to love drinking starbucks coffee before I got pregnant - Then I just couldn't face it anymore. Even though I didn't really get morning sickness I just went completely off certain things - the most surprising to me was baked beans - I used to eat them about 3 times a week before then! Anyway I think during the last 30 weeks I've had maybe one coffee, but made with only half a shot because I can't drink it if its strong anymore!

yep I still work a 40 hr week and I don't think Id be the same without my morning cup of tea or coffee!

at work I've got some herbal tea that I bought from T2. its such a nice drink as an afternoon pick me up . :) so thats another alternative for you...;)

With both DS and DD i waited until i was out of the first trimester (had decaf in the mean time) and then had 1 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.

I'm not a big coffe drinker anyway. I have had a couple of Iced Coffes though. The other thing i find hard to give up is coke or pepsi,so i getting the caffiene from them. I am cutting them down though.

I had one a day while I was pregnant.I asked my doctor and he said it's fine as long as you keep it to small amounts.

In the first tri i couldnt stomach it, but by about 15 weeks I was having one or two a day. I was a fulltime uni student and without coffee it would have been impossible to keep my eyes open long enough to concentrate lol!

Everything in moderation and like someone else said, there are a lot worse things you could be doing than drinking a cup of coffee.

personally i wouldnt do it i look after children and a parent of a 4 month old baby drank coffee all through her pregnancy and doctors warned her that she would end up with a very crying baby if she didnt stop drinking coffee during there pregnancy and she didnt stop and DB is constinely crying baby and can take a while to settle but he is never really totally relaxed yes he plays and eats well as any baby does but crys and its a very high pitch cry.

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My first question to my GP when i found out I was UTD was "do i really have to quit coffee" LOL :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 :o 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 have never been a coffeee lover but I have 1 or 2 cups of tea a day and a diet coke so i am stulk consuming caffiene as I am addicted.

Yep one a day on my FS recommendation :)

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 :)

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!!!

I drank coffee while pregnant as well . . . and coca cola >.<

When asked by my FS he said esspresso is fine and almost better than instant beacuse there is less chemicals in the mix. So I have my latte in the morning when I get to work and throughly enjoy it :p