Before getting pregnant I used to drink at least one bottle of Diet Coke a day. Now that I am pregnant I have cut way back, usually to little or no caffeine each day. Recently I have been sleeping really bad and the lack of sleep is causing me to just drag at work and have headaches. The past three days I have had one bottle of pepsi each day. I worry because I don't want to get into the caffeine habit again and I know the caffeine isn't good for the baby. How much caffeine do you ladies drink each day? Do you think a bottle a day is too much?
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I LOVE diet coke!! Before TTC I proably drank a 2 liter/day. I now have maybe one 12oz once or twice a week (usually on work days). I know many ladies still have their one cup of coffee/day. Moderation is key.
Edit: I also switched to DC with splenda.
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No flaming here! Excessive caffeine is bad, that's not excessive.
I have a cup of coffee a day and maybe a diet coke too if we have some in the house. Some days I'll have two cups of coffee.
Caffeine is bad if you over do it. You can have 1 to 2 cups a day, and trust me, I would NOT poop if it wasn't for my cup of coffee. I didn't make some one day and I got massive headaches as well.
Drinking 4 shots of espresso and a bevy of other caffeinated beverages daily is bad.
No flames from me. In all seriousness, a 12 oz Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi has less than 50 mg of caffeine. An 8 oz. cup of black tea has about 70. Most of the "jolt" that people like from soda actually comes from the sugar, not the caffeine.
I have cut WAY back from my pre-pregnancy caffeine intake, but I will still rub up against the 200 mg limit on a fairly regular basis. Usually I drink two cups of tea a day. Today I am going to treat myself to a grande latte from Sbux (2 shots = 150 mgs)
One Pepsi/day isn't going to hurt you or baby.
I don't drink any but I'm sure I get some from other stuff (the occasional chocolate I have, etc.)
I used to bring a thermos to work before I got preggo. I was a coffee feen! And when I was on midnight shift I would drink Monster. Now I try to only drink 1-2 cups of coffee only on the days where I am dragging. The doc said 1-2 cups is fine just not to use artifical sweeteners.
THIS... My doctor said a cup of regular coffee per day or a diet coke was FINE. She said studies have shown that consequences to caffeine usage on newborns are not evident unless the mother is drinking 4 or more cups per day. When I hit starbucks, I get a half-caf latte... but otherwise, I drink regular at home ~ if I miss a SINGLE day... I wind up in bed for two days with a migraine. A little caffeine goes a long way with me...
Right now the only caffeine I am drinking is an occasional iced tea but that's about to change. I need to start drinking a cup of coffee again in the mornings because I am really dragging. That's what I did when pg with DS-cut it out in the beginning and then had a cup of 1/2-caff coffee again when I got to around 3rd tri. It worked well.
Re: soda, that has less caffeine than coffee so one soda a day is not really a big deal. However, I would avoid the artificial sweeteners unless you have GD or something and just cannot have the sugar. That's just me though.
I was starting to wonder when someone was going to mention they drink coffee! Coke only has like 50 mg of caffeine in it...that is way under the limit.
I drink about 1-2 cups of regular brewed coffee a day. It's really half of a travel mug, so however many ounces that is. The rest is decaf and the occasional root beer that has a tiny bit of caffeine in it. So far, baby is growing right where she is supposed to be.
I may take a sip of DH's coke every once in a blue moon. I don't drink coffee or soda (exept occasionally ginger ale). If I have an occassional tea it's herbal.
I'm pretty sure you are fine with a bottle a day though. If you are able to do without it the better -- but there is no need to suffer through it.
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I gave up caffeine pop and coffee all together.
The only caffeine I get is from iced tea or chocolate. I try to limit both.
I used to drink a cup of coffee in the morning, order a coke with my lunch and maybe a coke, iced tea or milk with dinner.
Now I can't stomach the smell or flavor of coffee....so that's out. I might have a little bit of a coke with lunch and maybe have a coke with dinner. I'm more aware of my caffeine intake so I do find myself opting for just water than I did before I got pregnant. I haven't cut it completely out though.
Dr.'s say that you can have up to 300 mg of caffeine a day. One regular coke has 35 mg, while Diet Coke has 45. I found this here (https://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database)
I am not a big coffee drinker, but I LOVE Coke. I have at least one a day. I'm sure its not the healthiest drink of choice, but surprisingly Coke has one of the lowest caffeine contents of all soda drinks. I try to drink it in moderation, because I know all the other sugars and stuff are not healthy, but I don't worry too much about the caffeine. (You'd have to have 8 Cokes a day to get close to 300!)
But, like I said, I don't drink a lot of coffee (or tea). Other than Coke I'll have water or milk.
Before I was pregnant, I drank about 3 or 4 cans of Pepsi One every day. When I found out I was pregnant, I started cutting back to 1 or 1 1/2 a day. But once the morning sickness and food aversions began, I suddenly didn't like soda anymore, so I quit drinking it completely.
But...in the last month or so, as I've been feeling somewhat normal again, I started getting soda again, but just when out to eat. And then this week I also picked up a 2 liter of pepsi, and I have maybe a glass of that each day. So, I'm drinking it again but I don't want to go back to how much I was drinking before, even once the pregnancy is over. That was too much.
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I've read that you can have up to 200mg of caffeine a day, about the equivalent of a 20oz coffee.
Before getting pregnant, I drank a lot of diet coke and iced coffee and lattes, a lot of iced tea.
Since the day I found out I was pregnant, I quit pretty much all caffeine. In the past 8 weeks I have had two 8oz glasses of tea and some chocolate. That's it. If I crave soda, I just drink Sprite or Sierra Mist (both are caffeine free).
Well, I feel like I may be worse than most, but that's ok i'll confess anyways. I drink a medium or large latte about every three days from Dunkin Donuts... I think the large may have close to 300mg caffine (DD doesn't offer up caffine content info, but I based it on the amt of espresso in one cup and compared to stbux). Then i'll drink sips of my husbands mtn. dew because I'm not strong enough not to drink any of it, but I don't want to waste a whole caffine binge on it. And I don't even think twice about chocolate or anything else that may have caffine.
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