HOW many of you drank SODA while pregnant? ...

[Brieanna]

I think there was a study that showed that people who drank HUGE amounts of caffeine were more likely to miscarry in the first few weeks, but it was a very large amount.

I drank a natural sugar pepsi (no hfcs) everyday after the first trimester (during the first trimester I drank lots of 7-up) and was actually told to drink one before my ultrasound to make her move.

The nurse who was in the delivery room did tell me that she knew of one lady who drank lots of coffee and when her baby was born he was really fussy because of caffeine withdrawals, but honestly I have no idea how she could even know that was the reason he was fussy.

 

[Tanikins]

Also my main craving through all my pregnancy was monster ripper energy drink - i was litterally addicted to the stuff before i found out and i didnt know till 8 weeks so i must of drank a fair few!!! I didnt drink any more till around a week before i had him and that was because he was measuring big and was told it could help him out

 

[Blah11]

huge amounts with both babies and both fine !

 

[MrsPoodle]

I drank a can of normal coke every few days for a few months, my baby is fine. I checked with my mw, she said you'd have to drink about 30 cans of coke every day to do any damage.

 

[Vanilla_girl]

Mt dew was the only thing that made my morning sickness somewhat bearable the first 15 weeks, so yeah, drank a lot of that.
After first tri, I cut down to one or two a day. My lo is special needs, but that happened at the egg split, not from my pop consumption.

 

[sarah0108]

I craved coke, full fat coke at that

My babies are fine!

 

[VieraSky]

I drank soda while I was pregnant, and Rowan turned out perfect.

 

[steph.4192]

Your allowed to drink about 2 cups of coffee(i think) a day, i use to have a coffee in the morning and i would sometimes drink coke aswell and my bubba is fine

 

[tanya]

I still had Pop, coffee, tea etc etc I cut down from 6-7 filter coffees a day and 3 cans o red bull to about 5-6 instant coffees (some of them were decaff, less than 1/2 tho. I gave up the energy drinks and a lot of the food I like most (sushi, yummy cheese etc) so I decided that coffee wasnt that important to miss for 9 months.
After my 20 week scan I actually started drinking more coffee and after my 30 week scan I drank even more, they diagnosed Flynn with macrosomia (big baby) and told me he would be at least 10-11lb possibly 12lb, I absolutely shat myself and I'd read that caffeine can cause low birthweight so I drank more in the hope he would "fit" on the way out! At my scan 2 weeks before he was due they were still saying he was huge. When he was born he was 7lb11 I then decided that doctors are idiots lol

Eta- Flynns perfect btw I wouldn't worry at all being pregnant is scary enough as it is without panicking about every tiny thing that you eat and drink, if you followed all te advice you'd starve, there's nothing left! Enjoy being pregnant, I wish I had and hadn't been so worried about everything,

 

[Kel127]

Yup! I drank caffine everyday with my son and with this pregnancy. My son is just fine and I'm sure this one will be too!

 

[x__amour]

Moi! They recommend less than 200mg of soda a day. (5 cans of soda, 2 coffees)

 

[laomom]

I did. He was born healthy. I limited myself one can a day. If I'm a bad mama, two cans. You should be fine as long as it is in moderation, IMO.

 

[mummy2lola]

I've always been addicted to pepsi max which is caffine free but the mw said if I wanted "real" coke then 5 day is the limit from the very start of ur pregnancy.I wouldn't worry hun,choc contains caffine and so does alot of other stuff and I'm sure there r people that loads of it without even knowing,five cans of real coke is quite abit of caffine so I'm sure research is done on a extreme amount of it xx

 

[KatieB]

Not coke or anything but I was addicted to soda water (had to be Schweppes) with loads of ice and a splash of lime cordial (had to be Roses Lime Cordial lol), the ice stopped me feeling sick.

 

[darkangel1981]

I still drank it but i made sure it was caffeine free, i even switched my teabags to caffeine free ones! I did however allowed myself 1 proper cup of tea a day and omg i loved it. Can't live without my morning cuppa.

 

[darkangel1981]

I've always been addicted to pepsi max which is caffine free but the mw said if I wanted "real" coke then 5 day is the limit from the very start of ur pregnancy.I wouldn't worry hun,choc contains caffine and so does alot of other stuff and I'm sure there r people that loads of it without even knowing,five cans of real coke is quite abit of caffine so I'm sure research is done on a extreme amount of it xx

Im really sure pepsi max has caffeine in it. Sure i read it on the side once.

 

[KatieB]

I still drank it but i made sure it was caffeine free, i even switched my teabags to caffeine free ones! I did however allowed myself 1 proper cup of tea a day and omg i loved it. Can't live without my morning cuppa.

Same here!

 

[MaskedKitteh]

I drank copious amounts of soda whilst pregnant, I had hypermisis and I couldn't keep down water, but I could keep down soda. So I drank it!

 

[prdlyexpectng]

i couldn't stomach anything fizzy the first trimester and part of second, but after that i had on average 1 soda a day and 1 cup of coffee... my LO is as happy as can be

 

[Natasha2605]

I drank A LOT of fizzy juice when pregnant with Summer and she's turned out fine, no obvious side effects and thankfully she didn't come out addicted to caffiene haha!

This time round I probs drink even more because my only craving has been for Irn Bru so I drink quite a bit of that some days