To need a coffee as soon as I wake up?

I have a coffee and a tea which I make at the same time. Drink coffee first, then tea.

I start work at 6:30am. I purposely get up an extra 30mins early to have a nice hot coffee and wake up slowly. I don’t feel right if I skip my morning coffee. It’s the thought of it that gets me out of bed!

@ChekhovsMum
totally agree. Dentist once told me that coffee was ‘one of the finer things in life’ - I said it’s a basic human right.

Not unreasonable OP.
Totally normal. Same in my house and I have a pot of coffee every morning with colleagueswhen I get into work.

90 minutes’ wait for a coffee sounds like exactly the sort of self-flagellating twattery printed by the likes of the Daily Mail, just so that irritating PILs, colleagues and people with nothing to do can watch you having your first cup of the day and say ‘Ooh, you know they say you shouldn’t have coffee for 90 minutes after waking up. Ooh yes, it ruins your cortisol and your dopamine apparently’ and then have a little self-satisfied grin to themselves after their eight undisturbed hours of sleep and their lovely quiet morning where all they had to do was get dressed and then deadhead the geraniums or whatever.
So, so little pleasure is left to you as a mother, especially of young kids. If you can’t have a fucking coffee when you wake up, what the fuck is the point of anything?

I make the first two cups of tea of the day at the same time but the second one is in the thermos cup so it is still warm in an hour when I get to drink it!

I never feel awake until after my first cup of tea!

Exactly thats what i do and put it on timer so its ready when i am up,no way would i wait 5 min to make it

Like everyone is saying, it's just a habit. Not a bad one or anything, but a habit nonetheless. I do the same!

It’s a habit but it doesn’t matter and I think the majority of people who drink tea and coffee have one first thing. We did in my family growing up and as an adult I have a teasmade by my bed which goes on as soon as I wake up. I have some water first tho.
On school run days I have my second (decaf coffee) with breakfast before leaving the house, then a latte from our coffee machine when I get back to start work/ chores.
On weekends I have my machine latte as my second drink, with breakfast, then take it upstairs to get ready.
Through the day I generally drink decaf tea and coffee but do have another caffeinated sometimes.

I do this, it’s not about the caffeine, it’s the ritual/process of making the coffee and then the downtime of drinking it which allows me a few minutes to wake up. I could probably mime the act of making and drinking a coffee and the effect would be exactly the same, I just need that 10 minutes without anyone really talking to me, asking me to do anything or expecting me to make any decisions.

I wake up, stagger down stairs and put the coffee machine on. No one talks to me or even tries to engage me in anyway, until I’ve had my first coffee. I can then have some kind of conversation but I’m not moving or making any type of decision until I’ve had at least two cups 🤣🤣

I’m with you. Buy a filter coffee machine with a timer, @purplespink. You can get it ready the night before so you have coffee when you wake up! And the second cup will keep warm while you drink the first!

I know right - Wait 90 minutes!

People have been drinking coffee first thing forever, it's absolutely fine. Honestly the things people worry about!

I’ve had to stop drinking caffeine due to medication, I drink decaf now because I love the habit of a nice hot coffee in the morning. Took me a few days of headaches but was fine after that

You should wait 90 mins before having a coffee in the morning or it messes up your dopamine/cortisol or something.

You are being ridiculous, you don't "need" it.

My Coffee intake is a habit for me.
It dose not keep me awake either i drink 1-2 cups before I go to bed.
But my every morning my routine is, out of bed quick pee Coffee fags.
Then I might wake up fully.
Just to add i have wayyyyyy more than 2 coffees a day.

I would imagine 90% of adults when they wake up put the kettle on i know i do i assumed this is normal

Welcome to mumsnet, home of the chronic over thinkers, why on earth when you have 3 children to look after would you spend any headspace on when you have a cup of coffee

Totally bizarre 😂

It sounds like a routine you’ve built up now.
I watched a video once (who knows how true or untrue) but they said you should have a coffee 90 minutes after waking up for the caffeine to work best. Like I say, not sure of the credibility here but when I get up for work and get my first coffee at the station on the other end, it’s around 90 mins from when I wake up and I feel better than when I wake in the morning and make one just after I get up. Maybe it’s all just a placebo (like your 2 coffees in the morning) - we tell ourselves something is going to work for us and then it does.

If you’re worried about 2 coffees being too many, just think about how much the Italians drink. They seem to be fine 😂

Is it harming you or preventing you from doing anything you need to do? If not, crack on.

I’m the same with tea.

I can't function without a cup of tea and then a coffee in the morning. So I say crack on, OP. DP always brings me the first cup of tea in bed.