[ticklemegreen]

What food are you trying to avoid, but dying to have? I LOVE coffee

I'm having a hard time keeping it to a minimum! I work long hours and have exams next week, I've come to rely on my multiple cups of coffee a day! Also, I have been sooo tired, if ever a time for coffee it's now! lol

 

[dantesmama]

Isn't it cruel and ironic that pregnant women are so tired but we can't have coffee? I've managed to cut it out entirely, though. I had a sip of dp's coffee last week and it tasted nasty, so I don't crave it anymore.

 

[thelocaldialect]

I drank coffee all through my pregnancy with DS and all was well. I probably drink less now (and poorer quality, no coffee shops near my house like there were back then) than I did back then, but I still drink it. I get horrible headaches without coffee. I think as long as you're not guzzling down pots of it per day, it should be ok. There's nothing else I'm really needing to give up so much -- don't have access to a lot of soft cheeses or lunch meats anyhow, which I guess is a good thing!

I find it interesting that a lot of the pregnancy restrictions are quite cultural -- what they say pregnant women shouldn't have over here is completely different from what they say to stay away from back home. I have friends from all over the world on another board that I belong to, and we once had a discussion about the various pregnancy restrictions around the world and it was really eye-opening.

 

[MyLittleWarrior]

I'm not really a coffee drinker, so that's not a problem for me. However, I have recently given up soda, and after several months of not even really thinking about it, I've started craving it again. The bubbles help settle my stomach, the caffeine props my eyelids up, and I have a serious sweet tooth. I think I'm going to try either mixing some Peligrino with fruit juice, or picking up some organic root beer at Whole Foods. Morning Sickness hit me like a Mac truck this morning. I've puked twice already, and just now managed to get a banana to stay down and am feeling a little better. 10 more weeks of this to go!

Worth it for my babies though

 

[nina_yyc]

I've cut my coffee down to 1-2 cups a day, but refuse to cut it out. Last pg I missed sushi so much that I was constantly going out and getting avocado rolls and cucumber rolls.

 

[MaybeGracie]

Raw eggs. I do love my cookie dough...

 

[mama2myloves]

I've cut my coffee down by drinking half caf in the morning. Other than that, I haven't had to give up anything.

 

[Mama2Dane]

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Originally Posted by MaybeGracie Raw eggs. I do love my cookie dough...

 

[ursusarctos]

Huh, I'm not cutting anything but alcohol and coffee. I didn't even think about the food restrictions, most of which are mindless imo - use your common sense, you know? Don't eat unpasteurized cheese from unhealthy, factory-farmed cows, but soft cheese from small-farm, organic goats is probably ok and really good for you. I do love me my soft goat cheese

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I would probably have to think twice about sushi though unless it was really good quality and thus out of my price range... but I can't stand it anyway, so I'm ok!

 

[kcparker]

Re: coffee - You can drink 2-300 mg. of caffeine a day safely - I was just told this today by a midwife. That means one espresso or 2-3 cups of regular coffee a day. So, don't feel you have to be totally deprived.

Sushi. I will miss sushi. Not that I ate it often, but it would be nice to eat it once in awhile...

Some of the other food restrictions aren't totally mindless - an acquaintance of mine did get a listeria infection from lunchmeat and went into premature labor at 34 weeks. Her baby is fine now, but a 2 1/2 hour labor and premature infant was pretty scary for her, and the docs. didn't catch her listeria infection for 3 days postpartum, which made her waaay sicker than if they'd caught it sooner. Her illness and baby's prematurity messed up their breastfeeding and it was just sort of a bad scene for awhile. So, salmonella, e. coli, listeria, not common, but they do crop up...

 

[chibaby]

FYI - I looked up the ingredients online for Pillsbury cookie dough and it says that all of their dough is made with eggs that are dried and pasteurized. Hmmm...sounds like cookie dough might be on the menu tonight!

 

[DJ's_Girl]

McDonalds and BK mostly for me. Yuuuuummy! Which, yes, I know it's bad to begin with but it is sooo darn good.

 

[ekblad9]

I started drinking half caf after my miscarriage and have two cups of 1/2 caf everyday now. So I guess that's one cup of real coffee. I used to drink about two cups of real coffee so it's not a huge sacrafice but it is tough. I'm so darn tired! I haven't given up anything else. I am usually a sweet tooth but have no taste for sweets right now so maybe I'll actually lose some weight, LOL.

 

[Channelle]

I don't like coffee, and never drank it, same with soda, I'm a juice/water/milk drinker. So I'm not missing out there. I don't eat lunch meats and don't like chocolate, so not missing out there. Probably my biggest restriction is my junk food and fast food. I love me my mcdonalds and potato chips. Oh, and I love sushi, but I only eat the veggie ones with avocado or the cooked shrimp ones, so I'm ok with eating those.

Honestly my biggest worry is that I will have to cut out my spicy foods like curry, not because it's harmful to baby, but because I'm sure it will not agree with my stomach!

 

[MommyNicoleTX]

this will sound silly but i miss my tylenol for headaches, my cough meds for my cough at night, and my coffee. i cut them all out and its been hard!

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[MyLittleWarrior]

I know some people don't want to take anything at all when they're pregnant, and that's a great choice, but if you do need to take something, Tylenol is one of the safest things you can take while pregnant. My problem is that taking Tylenol for a migraine is like trying to put out a house fire with a squirt gun. I miss my Excedrin.

 

[Channelle]

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Originally Posted by MyLittleWarrior I know some people don't want to take anything at all when they're pregnant, and that's a great choice, but if you do need to take something, Tylenol is one of the safest things you can take while pregnant. My problem is that taking Tylenol for a migraine is like trying to put out a house fire with a squirt gun. I miss my Excedrin.

Oh this is my biggest problem! Tylenol does nothing for my migraines!

 

[cloudbutterfly]

I'm okay without coffee and regular tea, but I miss being able to order anything interesting when I go to a coffee shop! I'm a writer, so I consider my cup of coffee or whatever daily rent for a bit of "office" space. I can get mint herbal tea usually, but it's been warm enough to want something cold to drink, which is what is giving me problems now. I had this wonderful Passion Iced Tea Lemonade at Starbucks the other day only to find out later that the Tazo Passion tea has hibiscus in it, which we're apparently not supposed to have because it can stimulate contractions and maybe cause a miscarriage. *sighs*

The other thing that saddens me is no soft cheeses. Or blue cheeses. I knew I'd have to give up wine, but the cheeses too? Oh well, at least there's other good cheeses that we can have.

 

[cloudbutterfly]

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Originally Posted by MyLittleWarrior However, I have recently given up soda, and after several months of not even really thinking about it, I've started craving it again. The bubbles help settle my stomach, the caffeine props my eyelids up, and I have a serious sweet tooth. I think I'm going to try either mixing some Peligrino with fruit juice, or picking up some organic root beer at Whole Foods.

There are also some good juice-based sodas at Whole Foods (Izze and Juice Squeeze), and some dry sodas that are kind of good. Although, the dry sodas actually taste too sweet for me now that I've forced myself to start drinking flavored fizzy water.

My husband also makes his own sodas on occasion--from scratch, not from the artificial concentrates you can buy--and he's gotten really good at it, so other than the sugar, I'm lucky to have him around when I really need an actual sweet soda to settle my stomach.

 

[MommyNicoleTX]

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Originally Posted by Channelle Oh this is my biggest problem! Tylenol does nothing for my migraines!

exactly...