Coffee during the TWW?

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

:agree: I drank coffee or tea during all my pregnancies.

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Everyone did when our parents were young! They did much worse too lol and fertility has only gotten worse! I'm not too worried 😁

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Originally Posted by DRV

Everyone did when our parents were young! They did much worse too lol and fertility has only gotten worse! I'm not too worried ��

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:agree: that's a fact! My mom smoked like a chimney when she was pregnant with me (and for my whole entire childhood.) It's a miracle we survived LOL

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Originally Posted by Throwaway_panther

Yup, echoing atomic on both coffee and alcohol! You might have some people who poo poo coffee even as early as the 2WW, but the science doesn't support this.

Similarly, the science (despite some more scaremongering articles lately) says alcohol during the implantation period also doesn't affect it. SEVERE amounts of alcohol (like being blitzed out drunk) can potentially affect implantation by either a.) preventing it or b.) damaging the egg, but moderate amounts has no impact whatsoever. And this has been echoed to me by doctors and midwives as well.

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:agree: my doctor said (after I inadvertently took a huge dose of vitex when I was first pregnant with DS 4 because I had a period and wrongly assumed that I was not pregnant when I actually was) that early on, it's either sink or swim anyway. If the baby is harmed, it doesn't make it any further. If it was THAT bad that it could affect a baby, the pregnancy would just stop. The real risks of birth defects happen when pregnancy is well underway because the baby is sharing your blood supply at that point and is "stuck", the pregnancy is def. progressing. That is of course no reason to rest on our laurels with harmful things in the 2ww of course but it's not likely that a small amount of coffee or alcohol can even do anything. :)

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

:agree: my doctor said (after I inadvertently took a huge dose of vitex when I was first pregnant with DS 4 because I had a period and wrongly assumed that I was not pregnant when I actually was) that early on, it's either sink or swim anyway. If the baby is harmed, it doesn't make it any further. If it was THAT bad that it could affect a baby, the pregnancy would just stop. The real risks of birth defects happen when pregnancy is well underway because the baby is sharing your blood supply at that point and is "stuck", the pregnancy is def. progressing. That is of course no reason to rest on our laurels with harmful things in the 2ww of course but it's not likely that a small amount of coffee or alcohol can even do anything. :)

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You thought you wernt pregnant because you had what you thought was a period? I've had a light bleed that has led to nowhere today... Thought it was my first AF after my miscarriage 5 weeks ago. Maybe it's just my hormones settling or something... But hmm...


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Originally Posted by Pinkbutterfly16

You thought you wernt pregnant because you had what you thought was a period? I've had a light bleed that has led to nowhere today... Thought it was my first AF after my miscarriage 5 weeks ago. Maybe it's just my hormones settling or something... But hmm...


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Yes, I had what appeared to be a full 5 day period and started the vitex. What really happened, we later found out, was that I was pg with twins and one went due to placenta previa, and one stayed, so I took 1200 mg vitex for 2 weeks when I was first pregnant with my 4th son. :( That is why I'm so insistent on you guys taking a pregnancy test even when you think you are not pregnant, even when you have a period, because you can have heavy bleeding and still be pregnant the whole time.