I have just thrown away my cup of coffee....

[belgo]

I have had two early miscarriages in the past six months, and we are now trying to concieve again. I love coffee - I don't drink a huge amount -- probably two or three cups a day - but now I will be abstaining altogether having just read this article here

It makes me very upset to think that my coffee drinking could have contributed to my miscarriages

I too have had one miscarriage and now 10+5 weeks pregnant and had a very slight bleed yesterday. I have been off coffee this pregnancy so could go either way - worst thing is to blame yourself. This is newly found research, doctors for numbers have years have proven that a healthy woman can in no way 'increase' her chances of a miscarriage. Even those woman with severe drug abuse and alcohol abuse only maximise their chances of an abnormal baby - not the chances of miscarriage.

If you need to talk you know where i am.
Katelyn

thanks katelyn. I hope all is well with your pregnancy this time, the bleed must be very nervewrecking

having had 2 m/cs i avoid coffee, wine, flying and sex completely for the first 12 weeks at least of pregnancy

not because i think they caused the m/cs, but because i want to do all i possibly can to avoid that happening again IYSWIM

belgo, I'm sorry you're upset. i'm quite sure your m/cs weren't caused by coffee drinking and hope you're preg again soon. TTC post m/c is grim, isn't it?

Katelyn, hope you're OK

Got a scan on Thursday morning - fingers crossed. Will be 11 +1 then!

It seems to have stopped today but when you've been there, nothing frightens you quite like the sight of blood.

Good luck to all.

K x

I get pg instantly, twice, and carried both babies to term, whilst eating copius amounts of chocolate and drinking coke.

I tried to cut down on the coke with my first and drink milk but that made me nauseous so I got my dairy through custard instead.

With my second I probably had two cans coke per day most days, and now I do try to limit myself to just one.

So I have to say that you should not believe everything you read in the papers! Your mc are both incredibly sad and I'm so sorry you've lost your little babies, but it was NOT your fault.

By all means, cut out the coffee, coke and chocolate from now on, and do what you feel will help you psychologically but don't dwell on it, as pp have said.

BTW, I read that babies who's mums ate chocolate tended to be happier and calmer....

I have been trying to read up on this latest study. If I understand correctly, they are only saying that 10-15% of m/c seem to be related to caffeine consumption, and that stat only applies after 8 weeks (before that caffeine only led to a 40% increase in the m/c not due to genetic defects).

Besides, there have been loads of previous studies that found no relationship between moderate caffeine intake and risk of m/c at any point. The matter is hardly settled.

Plus it's completely unfair who m/c's, I never made an effort to limit caffeine and I've never had a single m/c or any other pregnancy mishap, really (4 pregnancies).

So please don't blame yourself for anything in the past, belgo. You were unlucky, pure and simple.