IVF and alcohol?

[Bubbles14]

We’re hoping to start IVF in February and forgot to ask our consultant for advice around alcohol and caffeine intake. I know sperm and eggs take 3 months to develop and wondered if anyone had any advice about how much we should be drinking or is it none at all?

We are both very light drinkers and I’ve cut back to max one or zero cup of caffeine tea a day, but it is also Xmas after a stressful year!

I have had IVF at King's and they said no alcohol and low caffeine maybe one cup of coffee a day? They said decaff is fine.
Personally I gave up both for my first IVF cycle a couple of years ago and then had pregnancy and breastfeeding so was overly cautious, so not really sure if advice has changed.

I asked my consultant about this as when we decided to start IVF we had just been on holiday for 2 weeks and drinking, not very heavily, but not nothing, he wasn't fussed and said if I'd been having a bottle of wine a day consistently in the run up that would be cause for concern, but otherwise he wasn't worried and no need to delay.

I stopped drinking once we started on the egg collection process, even though I don't think a couple here or there would really make a difference, it was more to feel I was doing everything I could. I think in my 2nd egg collection round (which went better) I had the odd drink and felt like a small wine to help me relax wouldn't hurt at all!

I've also never stopped having a coffee a day through all of ivf, and pregnancy, you need to have a lot to be a problem is my understanding (not a doctor mind!)

My dr asked me to cut out all alcohol & caffeine for better chances.
i swapped to caffeine free pepsi max ( taste no different) and decaf coffee and zero alcohol gin… life has been a lot cheaper when going out socialising 🤣

I just don’t drink from the period before my treatment started. I had cut right back but wasn’t tea total until that point.

i stopped drinking around a month before and mine worked. I think my DH drank quite heavily the weekend before egg collection. I cut down my coffee intake but not totally I still had 1 per day. I didn’t change my diet at all.