Calling for everyone's opinion on Diet Coke for a pink sway

[Mochagirl]

I think the diet coke is way more acidifying than other sodas right?

I was just going to ask this: would a different diet pop work just as well?

[purplepoet20]

It is best to drink Caffine Free....

I couldn't stomach coke and pepsi porducts but I noticed after drinking Diet Bargs for the 2wks before O time that my ph dropped from 6.5 to 5.0 so it worked for me.

[Flava]

I don't know really. But I have 4 girls and use to drink diet pepsi none stop. Not with DD4 there was very little soda with her.

[zanacal]

It depends whether you're excluding caffeine from your girl diet - I am not so I'm not drinking caffeine free diet coke.

[mydream]

Do you have to totally exclude the caffeine from your diet? I was never a diet coke drinker or any caffeine and I gotta tell you I had two boys with no caffeine.

[queen-of-harts]

I rarely drink caffeinated soda and never drink coffee or tea and still got boys so im not so sure caffeine is a deal breaker on the pink camp.

[mydream]

ok, Im going with the diet coke- with the caffeine.

[zanacal]

Lots of caffeine (for both DW and DH) can lower fertility and lower fertility overall sways pink. Other diets exclude caffeine because it hinders the absorption of calcium which they feel is important - but I am not eating a high calcium diet or taking calcium supplements so this doesn't matter to me.

[atomic sagebrush]

Yes, it's another Coke question! I'd love all of your thoughts on which camp you think caffeine-free Diet Coke falls into:

* "Not harmful for a pink sway; drink it if you just can't quit soda but otherwise don't bother"
* "Helpful for a pink sway; guzzle it and watch that pH plummet!"

In general, I don't drink much pop (and I've *never* been a diet pop drinker and I have two sons). I seem to see quite a bit of anecdotal evidence (both in real life and on the site) that women who drink diet sodas with aspartame get girls.

I find caffeine-free Diet Coke easier to drink than Crystal Lite. But I don't want to pack it into my sway if it's simply *not harmful* ... I want to add it to my sway if it's *helpful*.

Your votes, ladies? Thank you!!

I think it's TOTALLY helpful for a pink sway and I find Crystal Light leaves a bad taste in my mouth but diet pop doesn't. Not only does it have artificial sweetener in it but the carbonation is also acidifying.

The reason why it's listed as girl-unfriendly (as Zanacal pointed out, thank you!) is because carbonation/caffeine is rumored to block calcium absorption, but both ideas have been debunked...you would have to drink several gallons a day for months to have any affect on your bones at all.

Whether or not you choose caffeinated pop is up to you. I have seen a lot of women (inc. my mom and MIL) who drink a LOT of caffeine, prob. more than any of us do, and have both boys and girls. The Oxford study found no connection between caffeine and gender of baby conceived.

[atomic sagebrush]

Do you have to totally exclude the caffeine from your diet? I was never a diet coke drinker or any caffeine and I gotta tell you I had two boys with no caffeine.

The traditional sway info bans caffeine for pink sways BUT as I said in my previous post, the Oxford study found no connection between maternal caffeine intake and practically ALL the anecdotal evidence I have seen is that if caffeine sways at all, it sways PINK not blue. Almost to a one, all the people I know who are caffeine/soda junkies have girls and people who don't do a lot of caffeine have boys.