https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 13 May 2026 07:08:23 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-49442 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:30:14 +0000 cascademom 49442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I haven't had any caffeine for about a month. Since I see my doctor this week, I want to know her thoughts on my one cup of black tea a day thing. I don't miss it, but sometimes feel like I might need my tea. Also, I'm going to afternoon tea with my friends this weekend, so I need to know how much I can do on that day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48924 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:01:49 +0000 mediagirl 48924@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was never a major caffeine junkie but I haven't had hardly any at all since finding out I'm pregnant. I had a half-caf latte from Starbucks a week ago and thought I was going to be awake for days. It hit me super hard.... Just half caf! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48910 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:25:35 +0000 His Barista 48910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha. There is no quitting coffee for me. I am around it too often. I have cut back since we found out we were expecting, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48793 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:17:06 +0000 MrsLMA 48793@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MRSDAREDEVIL: I was drinking way too much caffeine and I figured that if I could cut it out completely befoe pregnancy then I wouldn't shock my system during pregnancy. I also wanted to prove to myself that I.didn't "need" it as much as I thought I did. I'm sure I'll have an occassional cup during pregnancy;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48688 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:28:04 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 48688@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How come you won't be having caffeine while pregnant?<br /> I have had two doctors tell me that up to 200 mg of caffeine a day is totally fine while pregnant. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48334 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:42:07 +0000 pelikila 48334@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsLMA: That blog hits home for me so often and I love it. I think we all get a big reality check once we have kids. There is no amount of planning that seems to work! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48325 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:31:44 +0000 MrsLMA 48325@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pelikila: I LOVE IT! As someone who is TTC baby #1 right now, this makes me think that I'm in for a big reality check when we actually have kids:) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48322 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:28:26 +0000 pelikila 48322@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've found that I have to go back to caffeine slowly if I've been off it for awhile. Even when I drink coffee regularly if someone brews a particularly stout batch, I get the shakes and have to immediately try to eat and flush my system with water to feel normal again.</p> <p>As an aside, I thought the post from Parenting. Illustrated with Crappy Pictures' blog was particularly appropriate for your thread and @tina:'s comment. <a href="http://crappypictures.typepad.com/crappy-pictures/2012/01/the-uppers-downers-of-parenting-or-coffee-wine.html" rel="nofollow">http://crappypictures.typepad.com/crappy-pictures/2012/01/the-uppers-downers-of-parenting-or-coffee-wine.html</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48318 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:23:04 +0000 LuLu Mom 48318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been weaning myself off, luckily i've never been a coffee drinker, but i'm a 2-3 cans of pop a day person. I have cut myself down to one can and will stop completley after we return from our trip! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48314 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:16:40 +0000 MrsLMA 48314@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never really felt the "effects" of caffeine either, but I think that since I haven't had it in so long I recongnized them more today. I'm regretting that 11:00am coffee now as I've crashed..... is it 5pm yet?!:) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48312 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:16:23 +0000 cyneswith 48312@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just sometimes get intense lack-of-caffeine headaches - after several months of not-much-caffeine-at-all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48309 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:14:02 +0000 heffalump 48309@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have never been a coffee or soda person. But when I do drink it, I don't feel like it effects me that much. Maybe that's why I don't bother. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48149 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:11:34 +0000 chopsuey 48149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I drank a latte every day while i was in school. Once I got married I stopped drinking cold turkey because I no longer needed/wanted them.<br /> I never drank coffee for the caffeine, just liked the taste. Maybe that's why I never experienced the withdraw? No idea.<br /> I drink decaf lattes every once in a while now and will have some caffeinated coffee occasionally but I never feel the kick! :T </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48143 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:06:12 +0000 mrs. wagon 48143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I rarely drank coffee before becoming a mom-- I never really felt or appreciated its effects. Then after RJ became a toddler I started drinking a cup in the morning and a cup in the afternoon. HOLY COW, how is this stuff legal?? When it kicks in, I feel like I'm flying, that my life is SOOOO beautiful and wonderful, and I can do ANYTHING! Then when I crash, I want to lay my head down and DIE. </p> <p>I'm trying to cut down to 1 cup a day (in the mid morning), but it's SO HARD! Right now I'm starting to feel the afternoon slump (hence, I'm on hellobee!) and it's taking all my willpower not to get another cup. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48131 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:54:19 +0000 birdofafeather 48131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i'm also trying to wean myself off, but not going cold turkey! i'm drinking tea instead. i remember in college, i could have a quad espresso and go right to bed! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48059 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:54:13 +0000 tequiero21 48059@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>not really. but there was a short period where i took stacker something pills which gave some adrenaline (it was some diet pills). eek! never again! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48052 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:48:20 +0000 msmug 48052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started weaning myself off by mixing in decaf with regular coffee. I used to drink two 16oz coffees a day plus a bottle of diet Pepsi. (yeah... A little overboard)<br /> Now I do mostly decaf and only drink one cup a day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48037 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:34:51 +0000 Rescuemom10 48037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LOL! Cant say I have but this totally made me giggle! I dread the mornings when I can no longer have my Coffee. I live in WA where there are coffee stands and places on every block. Going to be torture! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/caffeine-after-quitting-cold-turket#post-48030 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:28:58 +0000 MrsLMA 48030@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I decided last month to cut out caffeine while TTC because I don't want to "shock" my body once I find out. It's been going REALLY well up until today. I couldn't keep my eyes open and I caved and got a 16oz coffee.</p> <p>OMG, I feel like I took speed or something! I'm moving at a million miles per minute and my heart is RACING!</p> <p>Has anyone given up caffeine only to go back- and did you feel like a crack addict??:) </p>