In the gaping hole left by caffeine... what are you drinking?

[PallasCat]

I love a cuppa. Actually, the problem is that I love several cuppas. Cutting down is tantamount to a lifestyle change. Having had my measly permitted daily tea, I'm left wondering... what to drink?

I haven't found a decaf tea that doesn't just annoy me. I do like herbal teas, but I've also read it's not a great idea to have lots of one particular flavour - you should vary.

So I'm interested to know: what's your hot beverage of choice when preggers?

I love my teas and currently having pg tips decaffee tea and feels normal now

Hot chocolate, cocoa, unrefined sugar into a paste with a little milk, then add rest of milk, heat up. I prefer this as no additives, also I use Oatley oat milk at the minute.

You can still have 3 cups of tea a day though. I just kept to 2-3 cups of tea and decaf coffee.

Currently suffering with evening sickness alleviated only by salty goods so it's Bovril for me [ashamed].

Hopefully it's not worse than caffeine but I do wonder

It took me to about the three month mark to even countenance a cup of tea this time round, but following my extensive research into decaf tea, my favourites are:

• Aldi bags
• M&S bags
• Taylors of Harrogate loose leaf (the nicest but pricey)

Otherwise I'm drinking Twinings fruit infusions, mint tea and plain old hot water. BORING.

I lurrrve tea! Could drink a lot of it but have really tried to reduce the caffeine. Fwiw I'm having 2 cups of tea a day in the morning to get me set up for the day and a can of coke mid afternoon. It's not doing me or the baby any harm.

The rest of the time I'm drinking water (yes it's very important but bloody boring) so I put ice chips in it and it really helps with the banality. And I might have hot honey and lemon, a hot ribena or even a vegetable oxo if I'm really pushing the boat out! At night I allow myself a horlicks before bed.

There are certain herbal teas you should avoid. Green tea also has a lot of caffeine in it.

I just had my one coffee a day then drank water or squash (except early pregnancy where I survived on coca cola.....)

I like redbush with a splash of milk.

Celen I think redbush may be my saviour.

Luna yes indeed - got my BFP while on holiday in a very remote community, only one shop for miles type of place, and the only herbal tea they had was raspberry leaf, which is a mega no. That and two empty spaces on the shelves for mint and chamomile which were out of stock. I could've cried.

Three cups of normal tea, then switching to Yogi classic (cinnamon). And loads of Ribena.

Mine was mint tea and water.

Also had the odd hot choc, but this piles on the pounds. You can also get flavored teas - cinnamon etc, nice for autumn.

Have to admit now I'm not pregnant anymore I'm back to my 5 x coffee a day habit...

I've switched to M&S half caff coffee, usually having two cups of that in the morning, then ribena with fizzy water or redbush tea in the afternoon. There's a nice redbush & vanilla one that's lovely with milk - think it's made by Dragonfly?

Rooibos Tea ( redbush) hence my name!

I've completely gone off tea and coffee this pregnancy so I've been having fruit/mint tea, hot choc if I need something sweeter and currently I've been craving cold milk so have been drinking that a lot.

I do really miss my first cup of coffee to kick start my day though, hoping my dislike will disappear after the 3 month mark!

Water (cold) and decaf yorkshire tea. it's better than the other decafs.

Ovaltine ???? it has folic acid in and still tastes good with half milk/half water

I hate tea and coffee myself - but when my friend was pregnant, I got her hooked on teapigs by taking her to a café near me that has their whole range! have a look, loads of caffeine free ones:

www.teapigs.co.uk/tea/show_me/caffeine_free_teas

I'm like this with coffee. It's been awful! I've switched to decaf and hot chocolate but by god I can't wait for the real stuff.

Normal coffee, decaf Yorkshire Tea when I fancy it which is rarely.
The fruit teas from Lidl are the nicest I've found.

Gothic I'm 11 weeks and am just about coming round to my morning coffee again!

I have completely gone off tea. All tea. Normal, decaf, herbal. I can't face any of it.

I have accidentally developed a bad hot chocolate habit. I limit myself to two cups a day, but it's a struggle.

Another vote for the Yorkshire decaf from me.

I couldn't keep anything down for months and went right off tea until about 20 weeks. After that I got the Yorkshire decaf but I soon slipped back into my old ways... Now having 4-5 cups of regular a day. Meh - I've been good with everything else and I like my tea weak...

Honestly, a few weak cuppas aren't going to do you much harm. It's not like you're snorting pro plus. I had a caffeinated tea first thing and until mid morning then switched to the decaf.

PG TIPS decaff.

I have 2 cups of normal tea and a medium latte 3 days of the week. The other days I have 3 cups of tea. I eat a lot of chocolate too.

So probably tipping my caffeine allowance.

Other than this, I like chai latte, hot water & lemon, pukka bedtime tea.

Might try some hot Ribena again after this thread.

But then again, I don't particularly like sweet/sugary drinks.

Hot milk!

I found fruit infusions really helped when I went through my last winter pregnancy and needed to warm up.

I have been known to enjoy a mug of plain boiled water like Laquila. It's soothing, and somehow the mouthfeel or something is different to drinking cold water.

I usually love my tea, but have gone right off it so far this pregnancy!