Coffee

Is it true drinking coffee while breastfeeding causes jitters in the baby? I did drink coffee yesterday and I noticed my baby was overstimulated and his hands kept moving a lot. I don’t absolutely need coffee but I’m curious what other moms have experienced because he was also unsettled no matter what I did whether I fed him formula, breast, etc.

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Personally I breast feed and I have one occasionally in the morning, from everything ive read only a small amount of caffeine goes to breast milk and i believe you can have 2 to 3 cups depending on how strong the caffeine amount is. 300mg is the limit which is apparently 2-3 instant coffees or less if filtered. But im very curious what others say as I dont pretend to know everything abd dont have mum friends to ask 🤔

I didn’t notice if it affected my baby, I was probably drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day in the newborn trenches.

It definitely can - caffeine passes into breastmilk at a small quantity. For my little one, I would notice sleep challenges on days I had a LOT, but my regular morning matcha didn’t impact her at all

Never affected my daughter ❤️

Doesn’t have any effect for us. I accidentally had a coffee at 5pm yesterday (I didn’t realise the time😬) and thought bed time was doomed. If anything she fell asleep quicker and easier than the prior 2 nights!

Yes. I nursed 1.5 years. I either had caffeine after a nursing session sonit had 2-3hours to pass through my system before next nursing session or i avoided it. I also didnt do caffeine past 5-6pm.

I drink 2 cups a day minimum and my baby is just fine😂

I was advised to have decaf because unlike us newborns can take up to 4 days to process caffeine, the amount of time does decrease the older they get but still takes a while x

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He had 5ml calpol at 5:45 and the temperature was 39.1. At 6:30 it was 38.2 so I tried to give him some milk and he only drank 4oz, usually he’d finish the whole 8oz and fell back to sleep. I’ve put him in his cot with a fan oscillating just checked it again and his temp is 37.8 but he’s still very sleepy.
It’s usually his bedtime anyway but do I try waking him and see if he properly wakes up or do I leave him to sleep and see how he goes in the night?

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