Coke Zero while pregnant

Pregnancy cravings!
Hi ladies, so I am 21 weeks pregnant and have to have an egg cress sandwich from Aldi! With a Coke Zero nearly every day!
Anyone else got weird cravings?

I've been craving coke too! I get the decaf no sugar one. It seems to settle my stomach when I'm feeling nauseous.

Yea I agree with this my mother had all sorts with me and I turned out fine

so the question is should we be afraid of everything we are told or see about what to have and not to while pregnant

I would be more wary about the fact Coke Zero contains aspartame. It's classed as 'possibly carcinogenic'. I wouldn't risk it but with the amount you're consuming, it is likely low exposure.

Does anybody among the older posters among us ever ponder the fact that our mothers ate and drank all sorts of things that are religiously avoided these days in pregnancy and yet somehow we emerged into life healthy and with the correct number of limbs? My mother drank gallons of coffee and tea; one of my most brilliant colleagues joked that her mother never gave up her evening G&T. Not trying to be stupid about good health protocols, and yet still . . . .

I’m pregnant with baby number 2 and drinking a lot of Coke Zero and stuff but I find it helps me because I have horrendous nausea right now I’m almost 9 weeks pregnant is this ok to do

You'll be fine.
I tried to avoid coke in pregnancies. I did for the first two. Had morning sickness 24/7 for the entire way through.
When pregnant with #3 I had a can and found that it did clear morning sickness amazingly for me. Wish I'd done it in the first two.
I still felt queasy, but if I drank coke as I ate I could actually hold down something. I was much more healthy for it.

The gold coke tins are sugar and caffeine free.

As long as you're not getting caffeine from any where else (chocolate, tea etc) then why not!

You'll be fine, don't worry.

I was working 13 hour nightshifts in my second pregnancy. If I didn't drink an energy drink before
I drove home, I would've crashed the car. That was more of an issue to me than caffine.

As an aside, the doctors I worked with used to try and ply me with espresso as well before I left as I had an hours drive home after horrendously busy shifts and pregnancy fatigue on top. I don't like coffee though.

I didn't even know this was a thing in my first pregnancy a few years ago. You should be fine with what your consuming. I was more aware in my recent pregnancy but if I wanted a tea or a can of fizzy stuff I just had it, was never stupid amounts anyway. I probably didn't go over the limit and if I did not very often but there's enough stuff they tell you to avoid.

I know someone that was very strict on this. She'd say oh I can't have a coffee already had one today but at her baby shower she was drinking cider 🙈😂

If anything now might be the moment for full Coke to help you tore over the calories you’ve lost (assuming you were a healthy weight before). It was recommended by the GP for me when I’d had hideous (lost a stone in a week style) food poisoning with ‘extra sugar stirred in for calories’.

Coke might not hydrate you as much as water but it certainly doesn't dehydrate you.

Fine for baby i guess ... (hope)
But boy would that be bad for your teeth😅

Burgers, sweets, crisps and coke got me through my almost hypermesis. You've got to do what you've got to do.

It's well within the caffeine guidelines and the NHS website would be very risk averse when giving guidelines.

I suffered from HG and drank it. It's the sugar boost that was needed. If it's what you need, it's what you need.

You can have up to 200mg of caffeine a day and a can of Coke Zero has around 45mg so you are well within your limits.

Enjoy!

Get the decaf stuff. It tastes just the same. Caffeine also dehydrates you which wont be good for you.

Since when have you not been able to drink caffeine in pregnancy? I didn't drink tea or coffee in the early weeks of being pregnant because my taste buds changed but from about 15 weeks I drank it as normal.

I don't think I drank that much cola, but must have drank some as an alternative to a glass of wine.

FGS is there anything women are still allowed to do while pregnant?

If you have no other caffeine from anywhere else then the amount of caffeine in a can of Coke would allow you to have 6 a day. I wouldn’t worry

It's fine, it's not going to harm the baby. The risks of caffeine are small anyway. The only thing I cut down on in regards to caffeine was coffee. I had tea and diet coke as normal and the occasional coffee, all babies absolutely fine.

As long as you are within the guidelines for restricted caffeine intake whilst pregnant, drink away!

Its absolutely fine, stay within rhe recommended caffeine intake on nhs website, and switch between coke zero and caffine free diet coke, it won't affect your baby.