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Of course you can have chocolate chips! She probably just wanted your share!

But seriously? ENOUGH with the food policing! It KILLS me that people are hyper-vigilant around pregnant women, and expect perfection (which, I might add, doesn't exist because *hellllooooo* all of the conflicting information!!!), while they shove a partially hydrogenated something or other into their body like it's a just another day in normalsville. *lesigh*

Caffeine is found in : coffee, tea, chocolate and soda...
My doc told me I can have 3 caffeines a day... so I pick and choose.

Pfff! Chocolate.... is the winner always. But as long as you keep it in moderation I wouldn't worry about it.

Seriously I haven't been watching what I should or should not eat. Yes, I've had 1 glass of wine, some sushi (maybe 3) cold cuts, mayo.... all the things i crave. ha

Yep! Suddenly everyone around you becomes a subject matter expert on pregnancy (overnight . . . like they downloaded *Pregnancy for Dummies* directly into their brains), and apparently everyone that has had a horrendous birth story or miscarriage (or knew someone who did which translates to THE ENTIRE PLANET) that they want to *share*.

Ive never heard of that. And why does she feel like she can tell you what you can eat anyway?

I've pretty much quit drinking coffee altogether. There was one day that I could barely keep my eyes open at work though so I had half a cup of Keurig coffee.

I'm not a huge soda-person, so I've just drank Vernors/7up for when nausea was bad.

I don't believe there is any relationship between the two because with my first daughter I didn't know I was pregnant for quite a while and proceeded to drink an ungodly amount of energy drinks and coffee. My daughter isn't even almost adhd despite her father having it, giving her a higher chance of getting it.

@MsLipGloss: LOL - I love your response - perfect!

@sorrycharlie: There is no way to link chocolate and adhd together that I'm aware of. I'm sure it's just a new wives tale. Sorry you have to deal with that.

@sorrycharlie: My OB said I could reduce my coffee intake to one coffee per day.
Today, I went to a coffee shop with a friend and said I wanted a cappuccino. the lady said "decaf" and I said "no"
she said "really?" and I said "I only have coffee every 3 weeks or so, I want the real thing--plus my OB said I can have one every day.

And... owning a coffee shop, doesn't the lady know that decaf is really only 50% decaffiented, so I'd rather drink a half cup of real coffee than a whole cup of decaf ANY DAY.

I agree with everyone else. Don't worry about it.

I think that ADHD is waaaaaaaay overdiagnosed these days. It's easy to blame coffee because so many people drink it, but look back at grandma's generation. their parents drank coffee and very few have ADHD (and those cases are probably more correctly diagnosed).

I don't know what the answer is on the caffeine, but I just wanted to chime in and say that woman has no right to tell you what you can and can not eat. Having to deal with people like that is the number one thing that stresses me out about becoming pregnant.

I am a special education teacher and I have heard of this. However, it is still a new idea and it hasn't been researched enough yet to say it's true. Besides, I would think it would be 10 cups a day not 1 or 2.