TTC - between trying and testing do you drink or cut it out altogether?

[Becca124]

Hi all,

Just wondering when you're TTC, in the weeks between trying and testing do you drink alcohol?

Also, what about caffeine? Is this a no go?

Any advice is helpful :) thanks!

Used to stop drinking altogether. I stopped that after about a year of trying. There is no proof it will cause any harm unless you are an alcoholic or major binge drinker.

No alcohol & no caffeine. But I did conceive quickly - within 6 months each time.

1 cup of caffeine per day and a drink on the day AF arrives. I'm only in my first proper cycle ttc though (have cut caffeine and booze for about 6 weeks now). If we have to go any longer than six months and I'd find it pretty miserable though so we'll see how we go!

I switch to decaf (still has some caffeine but much less) coffee and don't drink alcohol in the Tww 😊. I have becks blue occasionally which is essentially nonalcoholic, but if you're being realllly specific it has

@Spooples DH just went out to get Becks Blue because I said I was dying for a beer

Budweiser prohibition is also realllly nice. I'd say it's more convincing than a becks blue. :)

I tested early each month and drank until the test was positive. Not heavily but I had a few. I don't have much caffeine (well within the recommended amount to have when pregnant) so that wasn't an issue.

I live exactly the same. If anything I indulge a bit more thinking that it could all be taken away from me.

@snooples noted! Though the becks blue tasted pretty damn good tonight after weeks dying for a beer