How much caffeine is OK?

[9jawife]

I have been super exhausted lately (as I'm sure most of us are!) I normally drink one cup of coffee a day but I've been tempted to have one more. Would two cups once in awhile be horrible? Please don't crucify me for asking! Thanks

 

[babyface15]

I've been drinking about two cups a day lately too. but I try to keep them on the smaller side. I'd like to drink a whole pot some days I think I read about it on kellymom or Dr jack Newman website and decided this was ok for me. You can look up those pages yourself to be sure.

 

[Katteh]

Caffeine doesn't affect all babies, and even then the recommended limit is about 700mg, which is a huge amount! Unless it affects your baby I'd not worry x

 

[summer rain]

Advice in the UK is that most babies aren't affected by even very high levels of caffeine and it would take around 7 large cups of brewed coffee for even trace amounts to pass into milk xx

 

[Zephram]

I have 2 every day, occasionally 3 if I'm really tired. It has no effect on my baby - I know this because I gave up caffeine for a few weeks as he was always a crap sleeper and I thought it might have been the caffeine... Well, it made no difference! His sleep habits stayed crappily the same.

Just have a coffee if you want it, as long as you don't go nuts and drink a litre of the stuff everything will be fine.

 

[Berri]

Shouldn't be an issue. I used to have my double shot macchiato after I'd fed him though, not before or during