I'm craving tea - help

[BiscuitStuffer]

How many cups am I allowed a day?

Apparently it's not just the caffeine that's the issue with tea becuase it has other stuff in too.

I WANT TEA!!!!

Goodness me times have changed. I thought it was only coffee you had to ration? How far gone are you?

PS Is this DC1?

dc3
7 weeks

Have a cup.

Feck.. I must've had 7-8 cups of breakfast tea with each of my kids.

I love tea. I never thought of it as a problem?

I wouldn't worry.

I think my mum must have drank tea by the gallon throughout her 3 pregnancies- she does now

Web research seems to say 4 cups.

i'm limiting my tea drinking to 3 cups a day and am drinking decaf coffee, just a thought but can't you buy decaff tea?

There have been some studies which suggested that green or black tea may have some impact on the metabolism or bioavailability of folic acid/folate. I really don't know how well accepted they are, nor do I know enough about the subject to assess the studies for themselves - I was just twitchy as we lost our first baby to a neural tube defect. The risk is, I guess, very small, and I did drink tea with ds, though not with dd2. Just make sure you keep taking folic acid!

Decaff tea is horrid.

Just drink it. Honestly, most women in Britain have drunk it during pregnancy for centuries.

'It's being normal tea.

Just drink it. I drank my normal coffee ration through 2 pregnancies. Only gave up alchohol.

Have a cup...

You are supposed to limit intake to 200 mg per day - a cup of tea (8oz ?) has about 30-40 mg I think

You can have a few cups a day from memory. I remember thinking that I would never want to drink as many cups as was allowable.

If you feel strongly about limiting your tea consumption, you could try rooibos (redbush) tea. I never thought another hot beverage could rival Proper Tea, but rooibos is delicious! (And you can drink it like normal tea with milk).

I think it's an appropriate time for "Cup Of Brown Joy

I try to limit myself to 6 cups a day but am a total addict.
Decaff tea is horrid and I don't like rooibus.
I drank fewer cups in my 1st trimester (mainly because I felt so sick) but can't seem to cut down further now.
I gave up smoking with DS and rarely have a glass of wine so don't feel too bad. As said, I can't imagine many British women in the past passing up a cuppa!

I like decaff tea - it tastes almost as good as normal tea so try it!

Drink it! But don't forget it blocks the iron absorbtion so be careful not to get anemic or drink your heavenly beverage 2 hrs before or after eating meals.

I LOVE TEA!!!!

Currently limiting myself to roughly 4 cups a day and its fine.

Its mostly hot water and milk, right!

yes it's that it inhibits iron absorption. if you have tea too close to or with a meal, you absorb 90% less of the iron content in that food. i've been reading up, as my iron levels are very low.

I'd forgotten about the iron absorption thing. Is that the caffeine, in which case you would be OK if you have decaff afterward a meal? I am a tea addict in general but am trying to mix in with decaf / roobish / peppermint for at least some of my cuppas.

BTW, can highly recommend Yorkshire Tea (made by Taylors) decaff... apparently it's the only decaf tea that isn't 'decaffed' using a bleaching process, and must say tastes a lot better than all other decafs I've tried.

Some decaf tea is awful but i found that decaf yorkshire tea is fab....

no i think it's the tannin that stops the iron.

I love tea and baby seems healthy enough so why change a habit of a lifetime.

What did they do years and years ago before health officials started scaring everyone!!??