Have I harmed my baby?

Lord, no. I was taking four different psych meds (including Adderall) early in my pregnancy and my ten-year-old is a bright kid with no disabilities. (Except for a shortened finger that the hand specialist said was completely unrelated.)

Also, caffeine is actually given to premature babies as medication. It's not innately bad for them in the way alcohol is.

A not insignificant amount of women are still drinking alcohol at that stage not realising they are pregnant if it's a contraception failure.
The placenta isn't there yet so it's even less significant than later in the pregnancy. Stress will likely do more harm, just relax and be grateful you realised now rather than it happening later in pregnancy.

Oh good, just wanted to be sure. There isn't enough caffeine in that to cause damage from using it for one day.

This will have absolutely zero effect on your baby. You really, really don’t need to worry about this. It’s caffeine, not crack cocaine.

I agree it’s entirely pointless phoning. But 111 can get a doctor to call you back and sometimes offer advice.

My son ate some of a toilet disc when he was a toddler and they were able to look it up and advise me on the phone. Not totally useless.

You don’t understand risk, at all.

edit to add, I didn’t read the end of your post, I was having a someone visceral reaction to the first half of it (I’m a statistician), but I’m genuinely very sorry for your loss. Xx

Solphadine Headache is paracetamol and caffeine only.

There was another thread on caffeine in pregnancy other day, honestly OP, you'll be fine.

The studies they set the dosage off, when you actually look into them, show that you'd make yourself physically ill with it before you harmed your baby.

Are you sure? Because I googled solphadine to check dosage and there wasn't one with no codeine. There was one with no caffeine but not one with no codeine.

Theyre not professionals, they just read off a screen. They won't have a notion.

But it's fine.

As I said, some people need to hear “It’s fine” from a professional rather than internet randoms with no qualifications otherwise they could be stressing and worrying over nothing.

Additionally, you’re literally told to go through 111 if you can’t get hold of your midwife and have a concern.

Early pregnancy can be such an anxious time. Wishing you all the best OP and congratulations ❤️

@momofonex think of the very many people who don’t even know they are pregnant until 8 plus weeks and have worse than caffeine! Don’t worry. So will be fine.

There’s literally no advice they can give someone 6 weeks preg who’s consumed caffeine other than to say “it’s fine”. That’s it. That’s the option.

If it would make OP more comfortable/ give her reassurance she could by all means call/ text her midwife, who will also be unable to say anything other than “it’s fine”.
Calling 111 or seeking emergency care would be totally pointless.

Lol, yes they can. Advice entails anything ranging from “don’t worry about it” to “come in and get your stomach pumped” (obviously not going to happen, before you say it). A quick phone call for them to say “don’t worry” is likely be all that’s needed, but it’s better for someone medically trained to say there’s no concern than from internet ransoms with no discernible medical background.

I can guarantee the people on 111 prefer you to call so they can alleviate fears than the one time someone doesn’t call and the worst happens. Do what feels right for your situation, but don’t tell people they are being silly when they are just looking for reassurance on a medical issue, you don’t know if they’ve had previous losses that cause them to be more anxious about things like this. If something god forbid happened to the baby they could easily end up blaming themselves.

That dose as one off isn't going to harm her, just don't make a habit of it. I'd be more concerned about the codeine in it, I was always told not to have codeine while pregnant.

There’s no “medical advice” or assistance they can provide regarding having consumed a bit of caffeine at 6 weeks pregnant

Not silly at all, it’s better to have a quick phone call to be sure and calm your mind than take medical advice off of strangers on the internet. Pregnant women have enough to worry about already.

My point is that safety advice is safety advice for a reason. If you choose to ignore it and got lucky then that’s just it - luck. It doesn’t mean the next person. Will be as lucky. I’m sorry you don’t understand that.

I've been taking the cold and flu tablets that have caffeine in, and i drink plenty of coffee and have the occasional energy drink. I've really cut down on the energy drinks though used to be 1 or 2 a day now 1 a week. Lots and lots of coffee though!!!

I probably have that amount of caffeine every day including through 2 pregnancies. I have a really high caffeine tolerance and can't really get through the day without it. At all my antenatal appointments I did say I was worried about it but they didn't seem too bothered, just made vague noises about me trying to cut down.

@TaggieO that's just ridiculous 🤣 never heard so much crap in my life the comparison is not the same!!!!! 😂😂😂😂