I think if you can have coffee while pregnant (which you can) 3-4 teas is fine. You could make it weaker if you were concerned. I would have happily drank 3-4 teas through pregnancy if only my morning sickness hadn't made me totally unable to stomach even a mouthful of tea for the entire pregnancy! I love tea, I couldn't believe I couldn't drink it.
How dreadful! I know I felt that way in my first trimester. The tea tasted awful, funny how that happens. Now I'm enjoying it again thankfully. I didn't know you could drink coffee, espresso too?
This link Nutrition in Pregnancy - Nutritious Foods & Diet in Pregnancy - NZ (just one of the first ones that came up for me) recommends less than 300mg per day. So 3-4 teas is well within that. An espresso would also be ok. Other websites say 200mg, and I guess there's always the "no known safe amount" type thought.
An individual decision I guess, but personally I'd be ok with drinking some tea
I just noticed on that list (scroll down the page) a chocolate bar has more caffeine than a cup of tea I'm pretty sure lots of women continue eating chocolate !
I bought the retorts decaff tea, it's mote expensive but I drink loads of tea so it was better than cutting it out... Also have a look at the rooibos teas as most are decaff too and taste ok.
I find that that the caffeine has effects while BF too, so it's good to find another option early one
Thanks! I forgot about the decaf tetley. I used to have that last pregnancy! By the 2nd one I do feel my heart beating a little faster. Though saying that sometimes I get that with decaf coffee too, I wonder why?
When we were TTC it's one thing that i cut down on heaps and I bought the tetley decaf. I hated the taste of it at first but then I got used to it and it was fine...obviously now I'm pregnant so who knows how much of a part the caffeine played in it all (I also did IVF/ICSI and I had endo removed so I actually don't know what the real cause was). Anyway, one thing you have to be careful with on decaf's is how they "decaffinate" the tea in the first place, some do it using chemicals, but from what i could research I think tetley was one of the best options.
I'm now back onto normal tea just coz I love it too much, but I limit myself to 3 a day (which from what I researched is well under the usual recommended coffee intake like Kiwimummy said). I also do have coffee every now and then but i make sure I either have decaf or I limit how much caffeine by taking into account how many teas I've had, or if I've eaten chocolate or had a coke that day....
My obs said to me that if you need to have a coffee to keep yourself relaxed then that is better for the baby than not having one and being stressed...
I've just been reading up on this myself and the NSW Health recommends no more than 200mg of caffeine per day (some other sites say 300mg).
They say this is a maximum of 4 cups of medium-strength tea per day. If I remember the Twinings box correctly, English Breakfast is regarded as a medium-strength tea, so four cups it is!
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English breakfast tea - how many cups can you have?
I love tea, I couldn't believe I couldn't drink it.
I'm pretty sure lots of women continue eating chocolate
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