If you used green tea TTC come in please!

stacynikki · May 2009

How much did you drink during the two weeks (give or take) prior to O? I was planning on just drinking a cup of it a day but is that too little?

blessedinthewest · May 2009

You may want to discuss with your doc. There is some research that shows that green tea reduces your folic acid levels. As you know folic acid has been known to help prevent some birth defects.

stacynikki · May 2009

MrsGarciatobe:
You may want to discuss with your doc. There is some research that shows that green tea reduces your folic acid levels. As you know folic acid has been known to help prevent some birth defects.

Thank you. I am aware which is why I stated during the two weeks prior to O.

AMYfromKY · May 2009

I would drink 2 cups a day. I aslo ate pineapple core on 2-5 DPO on my BFP cycle.

easjer05 · May 2009

1 cup, in the evening. I took my folic acid supplement and prenatal in the morning.

It's really only a problem if you drink the tea an hour before or after taking your prental/folic acid.

FWIW, I don't think it really did anything for me - my cm was the same as ever, but if you don't have great cm maybe it will help. But they say that your odds of conceiving are higher if you drink at least 1 cup a day, and I did and I got pregnant, so who knows?

easjer05 · May 2009

AMYfromKY:
I would drink 2 cups a day. I aslo ate pineapple core on 2-5 DPO on my BFP cycle.

I did pineapple core from 1dpo to 7 dpo.

What's funny is that it was totally unintentional. Pineapple (with core) was on sale and grapes weren't that day, which also happened to be 1 dpo, so I did it for a lark. Again, who knows? Maybe it helped.

Shannonlea · May 2009

A cup a day is good, as long as its not too close to your PNV.

FWIW, I used to drink green tea like crazy when TTC but the last few cycles before my BFP, I didnt drink it at all. For me, I never saw a huge difference in CM. I also ate pineapple core and took baby aspirin on cycles before my BFP but not that cycle.

ibis · May 2009

I had one cup a day for a cycle, then the following cycle I had 2 cups on a number of pre-O days. I didn't have any EWCM following my miscarriage until that cycle I was drinking 2 cups of green tea... might have just been coincidence but I finally got EWCM and knocked up too.

I didn't worry about my PNV. I take it in the evening with extra folic acid, and honestly I didn't think drinking green tea 2 weeks out of a month while TTC was going to greatly damage my folic acid absorption overall.

blessedinthewest · May 2009

stacynikki:

MrsGarciatobe:
You may want to discuss with your doc. There is some research that shows that green tea reduces your folic acid levels. As you know folic acid has been known to help prevent some birth defects.

Thank you. I am aware which is why I stated during the two weeks prior to O.

Ok, just thought I would tell you. As you also probably know experts recommend taking folic acid for a year before TTC so I'm not sure how stopping before O changes anything.

stacynikki · May 2009

MrsGarciatobe:
stacynikki:

MrsGarciatobe:
You may want to discuss with your doc. There is some research that shows that green tea reduces your folic acid levels. As you know folic acid has been known to help prevent some birth defects.

Thank you. I am aware which is why I stated during the two weeks prior to O.

Ok, just thought I would tell you. As you also probably know experts recommend taking folic acid for a year before TTC so I'm not sure how stopping before O changes anything.

I really don't see how this has anything to do with drinking green tea for two weeks. But thanks for your input.

Married2MrWright · May 2009

My BFP cycle I had a cup every other day or so before O. The cycle before that I had it every day and it seemed to dry up my EWCM. So I took easy on the green tea this cycle and got more EWCM and my BFP!

I ate pineapple core DPO1-5 too...

MalDR0418 · May 2009

I drank one cup per day about 4 days before I O'd. It found that it really increased EWCM and I'm so glad I drank it because we only had sex 4 days before I O'd due to me being out of town, so I was pleasantly surprised that we even got a BFP!?

jdouglas84 · May 2009

I have actually never heard of the green tea thing......one thing I noticed that helped get my cycles more regular was cutting out sugar from my diet. I was also taking chasteberry supplements a few months before we conceived.....not sure if that helped with my cycles or not.

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