Cups of tea.

[sweetiehuni]

How many a day when pregnant?
I have tried decaf and I don't like it. I've had 2 cups today but I'm dying for another.

A cup of tea is 75mg of caffeine, so it’s 2 max I’m afraid :(

I drink clipper tea and have moved onto their decaf. It’s nicer than others as it still tastes like their regular tea xx

I'll have to try some of that. Thank you. It's sooooo hard 😂

Tell me about it 😂 I usually consider 6 cups a day a small amount 😂

I’m having 2 regular and the rest decaf to see me through xx

We use Thompson's decaf tea and it's fine! Switched to that with ds1 and never changed back!

Just be careful that if you have any chocolate or fizzy drinks as well as the tea then you might go over that:
www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/limit-caffeine-during-pregnancy.aspx?categoryid=54&subcategoryid=130

I didn't know tea was limited! I drank loads when I was pregnant

Yorkshire tea decaf tastes like proper tea!

There is more like 40-50mg in a cup of tea so unless you are drinking more than 5 cups (which would have you weeing constantly!) I’m not sure you need to panic!

OP i usually drank three cups of tea a day in all of my three pregnancies.

Sometimes a good trick is to just use smaller cups.

I’m pregnant and I drink as much tea as I did before.

Co-op decaf is pretty decent.

Yorkshire decaf, I never knew the difference!
I must admit that when I fancied it after 12 weeks, I didn't really limit myself.

The science behind the recommendations around caffeine consumption in pregnancy doesn't (IMO) warrant pregnant women cutting out or severely restricting caffeine completely.

There is a good summary here:

scienceofmom.com/2014/07/21/caffeine-safety-in-pregnancy/

I don't drink a huge amount of coffee/ tea anyway but if I fancy 4 cups one day with a chocolate biscuit on the side i'm not too worried, although probably wouldn't make a habit of it (for starters I would never sleep).

I’m drinking Tetley decaff tea and it tastes just fine

I'm going to get a few brands of decaf and see what I like. Thanks for all the suggestions it's really helpful as I'm addicted to tea 😂

Another vote for Yorkshire Decaf - make sure you leave the bag in for a reasonable amount of time and you an barely tell. I used to drink about 10 cups a day what a shocker!

I drink Clipper decaf or Twinings Earl Grey decaf (this is my fave but only good if you like decaf, obviously!). I find all the others I've tried have a weird flavour to them. Hope you find one you like.

tell you what is nice - red bush tea - no caffeine at all, slightly different flavour.

It’s fine. Avoid the shit like caffeinated energy drinks (they’re bad in many ways) but if you fancy an average British cuppa just have one. Or five. There’s only about 40mg in a cup of tea and even very conservative estimates put the recommended limit at 200mg.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some new work that raises that limit further as well.

Drinking it to the point your heart pounds is a bad idea but the average level of British tea addiction is alright.

I think the reason that people are giving such varying caffeine levels for tea is the difference between a 'cup' and a 'mug'. According to this (www.theguardian.com/news/2013/nov/27/caffeine-compared-coke-coffee-aspirin-chocolate-tea) there's 20mg of caffeine in an average 100ml of tea - and 200ml (to get 40mg in a cup) is a teeny amount - a small tea cup (which no one I know drinks out of unless they're having multiple cups from one teapot). If you drink out of mugs, like most people, then the NHS estimate of 75mg seems closer, so while I really wouldn't panic about going a bit over one day (well, I would, but I'm not a model of calm in pregnancy than anyone should emulate!), you probably shouldn't be having five of them day in day out.

I found the key to getting used to decaf tea is to never let yourself have normal, by the way - the comparison brings home how shit decaf tea is, but if you only ever drink it then after a few days it tastes normal to you.

I drunk loads of tea when I was pregnant. I have mine quite weak. Does that make a difference or not?

Marks & Spencer do a great decaf. I honestly can’t tell the difference and was addicted to tea pre-pregnancy

My tip is make a rule for yourself. Mine is that the first one of the day and one at lunch can be the two regular cups then the rest have to be decaf. I couldn’t get up and through the day without any regular tea! But then I don’t drink coffee, coke or really eat chocolate so it’s my only real source.

My mum drank lots of tea when she was pregnant with me, this was back in the 70's, the side effect is that I hate tea

Why would the size of the mug make a difference with tea? The caffeine comes from a single tea bag regardless. If anything, the more water added, the more dilute each sip of tea is.