Did you drink coffee while you were pregnant? I've been having one coffee a day since I found out I was pregnant. I have been a 1-3 coffee/day drinker since I was about 18 and my doctor and my research told me that since it was something I was so used to, it might be worse to give it up in the early days of pregnancy (headaches, nausea, etc, which i do get if I don't have coffee).
In Australia there is a serious "coffee culture" and drip is basically unavailable, so its espresso I drink, like a shot of espresso in boiling water with some cold milk (an americano, I think they call it in the US?).
Just wondering what the breakdown of preggos is - coffee or no coffee??
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I have a good size cup every day.
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I didn't drink any during the first trimester because the smell made me sick, but after that went away (early second trimester), I had a cup a day.
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Yep, one a day!
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I've switched to drinking low caffeine coffees (like cappuccino) or only 1/3 cup with tons of milk.
From what I've read a shot of espresso had 75mg vs 180-200 in a cup of brewed coffee, so one drink a day should be fine and well below caffeine limit.
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Can't survive without it, especially with a toddler and a job.
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I usually drink one shot of espresso per day, if I want more, I have a decaf.
You may already be aware, but, depending on brand, one shot of espresso often has less caffeine than a full cup of coffee. An espresso has about 70mg of caffeine compared to a regular cup of drip, which is around 120mg. And going along with that, decaf and caffeine free are not the same things!
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Unfortunately coffee is my main aversion while pregnant. During my second trimester I was able to tolerate about a cup a day. If the smell didn't make me sick, I would drink more i'm sure.
PS. I couldn't believe how hard it was to find a cup of coffee in Australia! I almost fainted when I found a starbucks!
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I still have my morning cup every day, but I switched it over to decaf when I found out I was pregnant. It didn't bother me to do it, and it means that if I ever really need a second cup in the afternoon, or want an iced tea or hot chocolate or something, I don't have to worry about having already used up my caffeine allotment for the day.
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Yes! I Had a venti 1/2 caff from starbucks every morning. Had to, especially with a toddler running around.
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Oh yes! I would never have survived the first tri exhaustion without it. I just made sure that I had less than 200 mg of caffeine every day.
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I drank some tea or coffee (or Coke!) most days of my pregnancy, especially after the first trimester. I've heard caffeine during pregnancy also makes it less likely that your baby will be sensitive to it in breastmilk, which is great because I can't live without it now with a baby!
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I drank water-processed decaf, with rare exceptions towards the end if my pregnancy where I was driving late at night and needed caffeine to stay awake.
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Absolutely! One cup a day several days per week. I'm in Australia too so I definitely get the coffee culture, although I'm in Darwin for this pregnancy and a hot coffee when it's consistently 5000 degrees outside and humid just isn't as appealing as it was in Brisbane or Melbourne!
I like to think that because I drank coffee throughout my pregnancy, my LO was used to it, which is why drinking coffee never seemed to bother her whilst I was BF'ing. I have a few friends who had the opposite occur (no caffeine during pregnancy and babies who were affected by even small amounts of caffeine whilst BF'ing) - whether or not there is actually a correlation is beyond me, but that's my thought!
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I felt like crap until 16w and didn't want coffee. After that I had my usual one big mug in the morning.
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I MC-ed with my first pregnancy, but I was trying not to drink coffee in the first trimester. I was totally going to have a cup a day after that, though. My midwife (who I ADORE) said "You'd honestly have to be drinking fifty cups of coffee a day for me to worry about your coffee intake." (Obviously, that's an exaggeration - but she was making a point to make me feel at ease.
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I voted no, but I never drank coffee before being pregnant either, so maybe not relevant
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Nope! No caffeine here.
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Yep...once in the morning, and sometimes I run to Starbucks for a pick me up later in the day.
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I've had a few cups over the last 8 months ... If we go to Starbucks, I get decaf. At home, I'll mix the coffee with 1/2 almond milk and some chocolate syrup.
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I had coffee on occasion, and when I didn't, I had other caffienated drink like tea or diet soda of some sort!
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@Penny Lane: ditto! not a coffee person, so whenever i get a craving (when we go out to breakfast or something), i just get a decaf.
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None in the first trimester, then one a day after that. I couldn't function without my coffee. The pregnancy exhaustion is no joke!
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As a former caffeine addict, I started weaning myself off of it well before we started ttc. I gradually reduced for a few months, down to just one cup of tea in the morning. Once I got my BFP I was able to give it up all together pretty easily (especially since the smell of coffee and tea make me sick).
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I drank decaf!
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I drank a cup a day before I got pregnant. Once I got pregnant my OB said I could have 1-3 cups/day so I stuck with my one/day. Now for some reason I don't really want it every day so I don't always have it, but I don't feel badly about it when I do.
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I had a cup a day for a while and then switched to decaf because I would occasionally have a pop with lunch and I felt like together that that was too much caffeine in a day. Now I can have the occasional pop without feeling guilty. I'm still drinking decaf but not everyday since I'm not working at the moment.
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Yep! A coffee or a coke every day. I was extremely ill in the first 24 weeks of my pregnancy and my OB said it was safe to sip coke all day long if that was all I could keep down.
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I voted no, but only because I couldn't stomach coffee for the first trimester. I did drink tea though. Once coffee was no longer awful, I drank lattes, Americanos, or regular coffee about once per day.
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No. I can't believe I lasted nine months without it. I love coffee! Now that Im breastfeeding I drink one a day.
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I'm a daily coffee drinker, and tried to go decaf when I found out I was pregnant, then developed an aversion to coffee throughout my first tri. When that went away I just drank coffe maybe 2-3 times per week.
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I used to be a huge coffee drinker but it has not appealed to me at all so far (I'm still in my first trimester). I would drink it if I could stomach it.
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I drank anywhere from 2-6 cups a day before pregnancy, depending on what I was doing (DH and I would easily brew a pot on a weekend morning and later in the morning brew another because we drank it down). I cut back to 1-2 cups a day when pregnant but rather than counting and turning it down and making myself stressed, I just focused on the coffee I did drink and savored it and if I ended up drinking 3-4 cups throughout the day, no biggie.
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I didn't vote because I don't like or drink coffee ever but I did have caffeine after the first trimester. Not a ton but I'd regularly have a cup or two of tea.
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I have one cup a day, sometimes I will have another one after lunch. Pregnant, FT Job and a toddler at home leaves me pretty exhausted.
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I *needed* my coffee when I was pregnant. First trimester I switched to decaf, then drank 1-2 cups/day of regular after that. Next time I am just going to drink the coffee and not stress about it.
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