Too much diet coke?? Wide awake baby!

[MrsGravy]

I haven't actually been feeding the baby diet coke I hasten to add.

So, yesterday my normally sleepy 6 week old barely slept all day - just very fitful catnaps in the sling. She usually sleeps really well in the night but instead of going off at 8.30/9/30 ish she didn't drop off til gone midnight. She was so, so awake. Not unhappy though - she was smiling and gurgling away for some of it, the little monkey!!

I'm wondering if I had too much diet coke the day before? I had 3 cans (I was out with friends) instead of none/just 1. I don't drink any tea or coffee so this would have been my only source of caffiene.

God, I hope she doesn't repeat it today, me and DH were exhausted by the time she fell asleep!

ooh am interested too as i wonder about the effects of diet coke too, i have a can a day plus 2-3 cups of tea plus chocolate....

I wouldn't consume aspartme while breast feeding. I wouldn't give that fucking awful stuff to a child so I certainly would drink it myself and then breastfeed.
If I had to drink fizzy drinks I would take the sugar hit rather than risk it. No question
But that may be just me.

I looked up on kellymom about caffeine and bf and was so confused by the half life and different ages that I'm trying to avoid strong coffee altogether. Just have a couple of mugs of tea a day. Can't see why dietcoke has more caffeine than tea but maybe your baby isn't used to it. Maybe she was overtired, my dc1 used to look wide awake when overtired.

ps you'll probably need more caffeine to get through today then mrsgravy!Hope you're not too tired.

Pagwatch - you're probably right, I have cut down considerably for that reason.

Thanks looloo, I'm not too tired. My lovely husband took over from me - she didn't seem interested in feeding - so I actually did get some sleep!

She's sleeping well this morning so hopefully it was a one off.

I might try and knock the diet coke on the head altogether. I just get bored of drinking water, don't like sugary drinks. Any ideas of anything else I can drink?

Hi MrsGravy

Maybe there was something in the air yesterday! My 4 week old was wide awake ALL day too! He wasn't particularly upset at anything, mostly just looking around, all wide-eyed. I hadn't had any more caffeine than normal, so maybe you don't need to worry about the diet coke.

I was hoping DS would be really sleepy today as a result, but instead I think he's over tired and is just miserable. Poor little thing is at last having a sleep in the sling. I want to sleep in a sling - maybe a hammock on a beach somewhere tropical... rum cocktails... waves lapping the shore... mmmmmmmmm

bitter lemon has a nice 'kick' to it, but it is sugary. I'm into ice cold V8 vegetable juice as a sundowner, but you couldn't drink it all day as it's a bit salty.

Thank goodness for slings hey TopTrump!! Ooh a hammock on a beach and cocktails...sounds heaven.

I might try the bitter lemon LooLOO but the veg juice sounds a bit too healthy for me

I'm not sure about coke but coffee used to upset my babies when i was bfing, dd slightly but ds big time