Coffee during pregnancy

Is coffee available during pregnancy? This question is asked more than one generation of workers in the scientific and medical sphere. Especially since coffee production has already reached a new level and now it can include not only organic elements, but also various chemical impurities.

Pregnancy is the best condition of a woman, despite all the unpleasant sensations and discomfort. Pregnancy renews the body of a woman. However, pregnancy is time to think not only about yourself, as a person, as an independent person, as a self-sufficient woman who has achieved something in life, but most importantly is the time to realize that you are giving life to a small person, a new person , which you will love most.

Also during pregnancy, it is necessary to realize that the health of your future baby depends on your choice, your style and the rhythm of your life. Therefore, it is necessary to regulate the quality, quantity and frequency of food intake, as well as the liquid being drunk. Everyone knows that during the gestation of a child, as well as throughout breastfeeding, a woman should not consume alcohol and, preferably, nicotine, since these factors may negatively reflect on the development of your baby's organs, which in the future will lead to frequent, possibly chronic, diseases, and in the worst case - death.

However, we are interested in the use of hot drinks, and in particular how coffee affects pregnancy. Many people do not even imagine their day without consuming coffee. But the question of its use during pregnancy should be considered more carefully.

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Coffee and pregnancy - what threatens?

Doctors say that drinking coffee during pregnancy can negatively reflect on the life and health of your child. This information is confirmed by many studies. The results of studying this question are, in general, unambiguous, but they differ in their character. On the one hand, drinking coffee can cause premature birth, and coffee in the early stages of pregnancy can generally provoke miscarriage. On the other hand, there is a risk of detachment of the placenta. And in almost all cases of coffee during pregnancy promises an increase in blood pressure. And this is not a complete list of the negative consequences associated with the use of a wonderful invigorating drink - coffee. However, these consequences do not apply to those who sometimes spoil themselves with coffee drinks, but rather lovers of strong and rich real coffee, with large quantities.

What is the effect of coffee on pregnancy? Why do people love coffee so much? In addition to the wonderful aroma and rich taste, coffee is an energy generator. Caffeine, which is the main goal of coffee makers, has an exciting and encouraging effect on the whole organism as a whole and on the nervous system in particular.

So why can not coffee during pregnancy and its frequent use?

It is important to note that caffeine is a kind of light narcotic substance that not only causes dependence, but can lead to death as a result of excessive use.

Coffee has a beneficial effect on the body after 20-40 minutes after its use - the mood improves, the working capacity increases, the body is filled with warmth and comfort. In addition, blood pressure rises, which can harm a pregnant woman and her child. Using small doses of coffee during pregnancy can be useful unless mummies with hypotension (low blood pressure). However, not only coffee contains caffeine! It can also be found in cocoa-containing products (cocoa, chocolate, etc.), tea, cola, energy and other products.

In addition to caffeine, with its ability to raise the pressure, coffee also has some kind of diuretic effect. So, as in pregnant women and so there is frequent urination, from coffee a woman even more often begins to visit the restroom, which will bring considerable discomfort. In the case when a woman does not get enough fluid for a good metabolism, drinking coffee can cause irreparable harm to health, since microelements and vitamins necessary for proper functioning are washed out from the body.

Also, some destructive effect of coffee has on the gastric mucosa and digestive tract, which is manifested, for example, through heartburn. In addition to caffeine, there are also N-methylpyridine (found mainly in dark-coffee coffee) and N-alkol-5-hydroxytryptamide, which, when combined, cause a crushing blow to the body.

Decaffeinated coffee in pregnancy

Decaffeinated coffee during pregnancy is also harmful. In general, it is worth noting that the concept of "decaffeinated coffee" is certainly false. Even in this form of coffee, caffeine is still there, only in small quantities. Also among doctors there is an opinion that decaffeinated coffee can contribute to the development of atherosclerosis.

Decaffeinated coffee, in addition, undergoes a number of treatments that can not be shown to be beneficial on the human body. Therefore, not only pregnant women, but also all without exception to fans of decaffeinated coffee, it is recommended to use no more than 2 cups a day, also slightly brewed and as rarely as possible.

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Coffee with milk (with cream) during pregnancy

Not the best way affects and coffee with milk (with cream) during pregnancy. Especially worth abandoning it, if you have to drink on an empty stomach. Coffee with cream or milk is rich enough to drink, however it does not contain nutritious particles and therefore negatively affects the food path - filling the stomach with this creamy milk drink, you for a while forget about the appetite and do not get the right dose of vitamins, and also irritate the mucous and cause heartburn.

If you can not refrain from such a favorite taste of coffee with milk (with cream), be sure to drink it slightly boiled and only after eating.

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Instant coffee in pregnancy

Soluble coffee during pregnancy is not recommended to drink categorically. This kind of processed product contains a minimal percentage of natural coffee (in most cases it is either the most rejected beans, or simply the husks that remain when roasting coffee beans) and the maximum concentrate of all sorts of chemical elements. So, instant coffee during pregnancy causes very serious harm to the body of a woman and even more - to the body of an unborn baby so far, to which everything that is eaten and drunk by the mother is transmitted through the blood. As a result of the use of this product, various diseases of the circulatory and other body systems can develop.

Natural coffee during pregnancy

Natural coffee during pregnancy should be consumed in small amounts and only if it is necessary in view of the reduced pressure in young mummy. One small cup of natural coffee is not too strong tea leaves during pregnancy does not hurt the baby, but it can help a woman feel better, more collected and more cheerful. However, still it is not necessary to translate the use of this drink on a regular basis, since the use of coffee is also a peculiar reception of narcotic drugs, which, like any dependence, is more likely to be passed on to your child.

Coffee and tea during pregnancy

Still, when you are pregnant you sometimes want to drink something warm and warm. However, are coffee and tea contraindicated in pregnancy?

On the dangers of coffee in this article described already quite a lot, but tea has remained in the shadows for now.

Tea during pregnancy is also contraindicated, as is coffee. In a cup of tea, especially hard-boiled, the caffeine is found no less than in a cup of coffee. Therefore, if you really want a seagull, you should drink it very diluted.

In addition, the deliberately false claim that there is less caffeine in green tea than in black tea. The percentage of this element is approximately equal in both black and green tea. However, green tea is still better, because it contains both beneficial microelements and biologically active substances. Therefore, the preference between black and green tea is still worth giving to the green.

With regard to fruit and herbal teas, they are more safe for the body of a pregnant woman and her fetus. But here you also need to be careful, since there are natural teas and created with the help of flavor additives. Be sure to familiarize yourself with the composition of fruit tea before buying it and choose the one in which there will be less of all chemical additives. And the best drink will be for you a natural herbal collection, a hot compote or a nectar. And remember that even herbal or fruit tea during pregnancy is better diluted with water.

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What is better to drink during pregnancy?

In this article, we learned what causes damage to coffee during pregnancy. As a mom, and a child, coffee during pregnancy is not recommended. However, the woman still wants to drink, especially in the second half of pregnancy, when the cyclicity of water-salt metabolism changes and the total volume of the circulating fluid in the body increases, so you need to know what alternative exists to these drinks.

• First, drink water - a good, purified, preferably live, for example, a spring. Also bottled water (only without extra additives) and boiled water will do. A pregnant woman should always carry a little water to prevent dehydration. Remember that water in this period should constitute the most of all fluids that enter the body.
• Secondly, it is recommended to use freshly squeezed juices or (in the cold season) of fruit drinks. Such fluids will help to get additional vitamins and will not introduce unwanted elements into the body. Fruit drinks can be prepared from harvested fruit, dried fruit, jam or jam.
• Third, drink herbal teas of your own production. This does not mean that you need to comb the fields and forests in search of necessary grasses. Dried herbs can be purchased both in pharmacies and in other places. Yet it is not recommended to mix many kinds of plants, and brew them alternately. In addition, it is important to use the grass that grows in your area (lime, viburnum, calendula, raspberry, currant, mint and others) as the basis for tea.

Dear women! Pregnancy should bring the body full renewal and comprehensive improvement. In many ways, these updates depend on you, because, as you know, "we are what we eat" and drink.

Coffee during pregnancy, no matter in what form it is cooked, can harm both you and your child. Therefore, it is better to abandon its use during the course of pregnancy. This will save you from various troubles caused by this product.

Be healthy, do not drink coffee during pregnancy and give birth to healthy, happy little fetuses.