Managing without Coffee for Fertility

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Anyone else really struggling with managing without coffee for fertility? Tea apparently better but sometimes, at least, when very tired, feels quite useless whereas coffee can actually wake me up. Augh. Sigh. Any tips welcomed!

Why?

Just drink coffee? What possible impact could it have? You can drink it in pregnancy.

I have never heard about having no caffeine? Just stick to 1 coffee a day. I did that all through TTC and pregnancy.

Honestly, I would just have a coffee. Have one a day in the morning to get your day going. The benefits of that outweigh the downsides. Coffee in moderation is nothing bad.

Plenty of fertility advisors advise not to drink coffee, and that it's not good for fertility. Hence the post.

Thanks all. Experience shared is nice and appreciated.
I'm older, and the advice is to not have; but yes, one a day; well, unfortunately work needs to be done to pay the bills to, well,..perhaps be able to look after a child!

It's the (odd) days like this where the just one doesn't work that are the real pain! After reading the fertility books encouraging no caffeine!
Finding the tea is FINALLY kicking in this morning; - phew!

Decaf gives a pretty good placebo effect

Well there's no science to back that advice up. There is only evidence for high caffeine consumption causing issues. If you want a coffee, have one and enjoy it.

I ttc at 40+. Took 3 months and had a dc at 43.2..
I gave up coffee, fizzy drinks, ate lots of leafy greens. And obviously took folic acid.
Dh took high strength vitamin c tablets (dissolvable) - for sperm quality.. Read up about 3 months for 'results' information online.
Ds is now 11.

I'm doing IVF now after 2.5 years TTC. I go no coffee after embryo transfer, but prior to that I'm happy to have one per day (maximum of 3 espresso shots).

I have stopped drinking anything other than water, one latte a day and herbal tea.

I've conceived naturally and through IVF, whilst drinking one coffee a day or whilst on zero so even anecdotally I cannot say it's had an impact, but for my self-blame issues I have to do all I can!

Decaf isn't almost caffeine free, tastes good and works well. I'd say pace yourself and do what is sustainable rather than be too purist about it, many of these bits of advice are based on huge doses making a tiny difference.

I did so many things like this during my 8 years of fertility treatment. Cutting X out, adding X. The more you focus on it the worse the journey becomes. It’s like an obsession and ‘doing the right thing’ becomes all consuming. I stopped faffing around like that after my 4th IVF because it was ridiculous and just didn’t work! I remember the big thing then was making sure to drink fresh pineapple juice in abundance but deffo not from concentrate or it ‘wouldn’t work’! I spent small fortunes on the stuff!

Do and have what you enjoy and what makes you happy in moderation, the stress and anxiety of cutting out all the things you enjoy is far less conducive to a successful end result than not having a coffee.

Sounds like utter bumpkin. If you take away all the kids born whose mums had no coffee while conceiving, there would be extremely slim pickings. Just have the coffee and ease up on the books and ‘experts’ (who are usually people with no actual authority on the matter who are just pretending to be experts), as bound to be lots of other rubbish written as well and you’ll drive yourself batty.

Conclusion: Our study provides low quality evidence that regardless of low, medium and high doses of caffeine intake do not appear increase the risk of infertility. But the conclusion should be treated with caution.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32546170/

Conclusions Our findings are reassuring that caffeine exposure from usual low to moderate caffeinated beverage intake likely does not influence fecundability.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916522002374

So true! There was a point when I was eating lots of pineapple, including the hard core because the magic ingredient, whatever it was, is supposedly concentrated there. Don't think it had any effect bar a slightly sore mouth...

On a good day I have one coffee and one or two teas, then everything else decaf.

Not every day is a good day 😂

For me there's just nowhere near enough evidence to cut it out.

I never stopped drinking coffee. Once pregnant I had a mug of real stuff in the morning and decaf for the rest of the day. If you like it drink it.

This country runs on tea and coffee and chocolate, and yet women keep having babies despite moderate caffeine intake.

However, if you are struggling to get through the day without it, I suggest that indicates you are overtired/lacking in something you need/not exercising or moving about enough, or similar. I would tackle whatever the cause of your tiredness is.

I discovered half caffeine, then obviously decaf aswel. Smoothies, hot chocolate.

i kept off caffeine for pregnancy and first few months of breastfeeding.

good luck with it

Caffeine whilst trying to conceive isn’t an issue, it’s only advised to limit intake once you’re actually pregnant.

Enjoy your coffee OP.