I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but I'm posting anyway. Did you complete abstain from coffee/caffeine during at least your first trimester? Or limit to 200mg? I'm drinking a cup right now and feeling a bit guilty.
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I voted other, I usually kept it under 2 cups a day (coffee or otherwise caffeinated beverage).
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I avoided first tri. Then had a cup of tea each morning after that. I would have the occasional coffee too, but usually just tea.
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I tried to keep under the 200mg a day of caffeine, so I had coffee, soda, and tea and just tried to keep track of how much caffeine I was ingesting. I often would get a half-cafe coffee in the morning so I felt like I didn't have to worry about it as much.
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I stopped drinking coffee. Although halfway through realized the frappuccinos I'd been drinking had caffeine in them.
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I drank iced tea every day. I was probably around 100mg of caffeine per day.
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For my first I avoided caffeine until the 3rd trimester. I was getting headaches and my Ob told me to try a caffeinated drink before taking any medicine.
For my second I just tried to keep it under 200mg. I actually discovered that Safeway sells half caf ground coffee so I would buy that to drink at home. If I went out for coffee I would either get half caf or tea.
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A cup or so in first trimester. Didn't really limit after that.
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I voted as much as I wanted but I think I only went over once or twice with Diet Coke. Oops. Other than that it kind of made me nauseous all of my last pregnancy and first trimester of this one, and I wasn't a coffee drinker the time before so it was easy the first time.
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I often have a cup of tea in the morning that probably has around 50mg in it. But I don't drink coffee even when not pregnant.
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I voted one cup a day, even though I don't drink coffee, because I do drink a lot of tea so I limited my caffeinated tea intake to one cup a day.
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I avoided all caffeine completely since doctors dont know for sure the exact amount that can potentially be harmful
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I voted as much as I wanted but that was in the 2 cup range anyway.
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I just try to keep it under 200mg of caffeine per day. For me this usually means 2 shots of espresso and maybe a piece of chocolate.
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I didn't change my cup a day habit. With DD3 I probably drank more (a coke/iced coffee with lunch in addition) bc I was chasing two toddlers
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I said as much as I wanted, but really we switched to half-caff during my first pregnancy so I could get 2 mugs in during the morning and I usually had a Diet Coke in the afternoons. There was also a period with DS1 where I really wanted sweet tea a lot. So some days I had none, some days I had more, whatever. In the end, I think it averaged out to 200mg a day.
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I kept it under 200mg per day. When my DH brews coffee, he usually only brews about 5.5 oz per person, so 2 cups for me is well under the 200mg guideline. If I bought coffee while we were out or if I drank a Coke, I'd keep track of how much caffeine was in it, but didn't get too worked up over it.
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I drink diet soda, not coffee, and I stick to the 200mg limit.
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For the first baby, I wouldn't drink anything that wasn't decaf. For the second, I try to drink decaf, but don't specifically ask for it if it's in a specialty drink. I have something probably 1-3 times a week.
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I'm not a coffee drinker but I did limit caffeine (from green tea) to 200mg.
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I voted as much as I wanted but that was pretty much only limited to 2 cups. Or 1 cup in the morning plus an iced coffee or something later in the day.
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I switched my morning k-cup to decaf most days and half caf when I really needed a boost. I got lazy by the end of my pregnancy b/c it was pumpkin spice season and those didn't come in decaf! Generally I tried to stay under 200mg/day, although looking back I only counted coffee and soda and forgot to account for things like iced tea and chocolate.
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Abstained in the 1st trimester, mostly because even the smell of coffee made me want to puke. But 2nd and 3rd trimesters I generally drink 1 cup a day.
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I didn't really drink coffee in first tri with either pregnancy only due to food aversion/nausea but the rest of the pregnancy I stuck to a roughly 200mg limit. I didn't worry too much if I had a little more than that on random days, though, as long as it was spread out throughout the day.
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I switched my morning cup to decaf and made sure to stay under 200mg for the day. I found that I really needed the boost in the afternoon vs in the AM.
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I voted 1 cup but it was more like 1.5. I drank 1/2 cups 2-3x day to spread it out a bit
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Aimed for a large cup of 1/2 caff or one small single-shot espresso drink per day. However, there were many, many days that I had two (and was fine with that).
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I said as much as I wanted but what I mean by that is I didn't worry about it if I had more. I sometimes had decaf. Sometimes had regular. Sometimes 2 cups sometimes none sometimes 1. Mayyyybe some days 3 over the course of a full day. I just kinda did what I felt like doing that day. Would I have had like 6 cups of fully caffeinated coffee? No. But I don't do that normally anyway.
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Tea in the morning is basically my religion but I actually didn't have a taste for it during this last pg. I'm thinking it's one of those aversion things where your body knows it's bad so it's not craving it? Who knows.
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everything in moderation...thats my motto...
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I drank as much as I wanted. It was most definitely more than 200mg/day!
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I had no pregnancy cravings other than Coke with lemon and I basically had one every day during the summer months.
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I couldn't really drink any during the first tri. After that I kept it to 1-2 cups per day. I don't drink soda or tea so I figured I was staying under the 200mg.
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I drank allllllll the coffee. Each country/culture has different rules/customs around food and pregnancy. I really like the book Expecting Better by Emily Oster.
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I've had a cup a day (at least) every day for all 23 weeks of this pregnancy. I often do half caf so I can have two cups and not worry about any other caffeine I may enjoy during the day. My doctor and all of my midwives told me a cup or two of regular coffee is totally fine.
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I don't drink that much, so I didn't eliminate at all just watched what I was drinking esp during 1st trimester. After that I didn't even really care since I don't have much caffeine normally.
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Read Expecting Better by Emily Oster. She's an economist who went through the medical literature on where these "rules" came from and found that a lot of the things they recommend from pregnant women are based on worst case scenarios of questionable studies. Most studies that find any link at all between coffee and miscarriage do not control for nausea, and women who have more nausea reported drinking less caffeine. Women who had less nausea had higher rates of miscarriage. There is no way to tell if the same thing that makes women less nauseous is also what causes the higher rates. One study even found the higher rates of miscarriage among women who drank DECAF coffee compared to those who abstained from coffee.
The point of the book is that economics teaches you about gathering reliable data and then weighing the pros/cons how they matter to you. Some women will hear that data and still abstain; others will find it questionable and choose to drink some coffee. You can drink a few cups of coffee if you feel like it makes sense for you; don't feel guilty!
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Up to 250 milligrams is fine. I also recommend Expecting Better, I really found it helpful to read actual data and reasoning behind the plethora of "rules" for pregnancy.
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I drink coffee every day, including during my first tri, but I try to limit one cup a day.
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I abstained in the first trimester and then only did decaf.
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