Made a change

I have made a change I have been thinking about for a little while. When we first started seeing my FS he said that the one coffee a day that I have would not be a problem (caffeine wise). So I continued to have my morning cuppa each day, up until the point of embryo transfer when I would cut it out altogether.

When not doing an IVF cycle at all, on the occasional day I may also have an evening cuppa. That combined with the chocolate eating I have been doing in the last couple of months must mean a more than healthy amount of caffeine being consumed into my already infertile body.

I have been researching making the switch to decaffeinated coffee, so I can continue to have a morning cuppa (like all the 'fertile' people out there) minus the guilt factor. I discovered that in the process of decaffeinating coffee, most companies use quite a lot of chemicals in the process! So all the people out there who have switched to decaf due to less caffeine, are now actually consuming more chemicals than regular coffee.

There are a few brands out there who do organic instant decaf which means that not only is their coffee grown organically, but the process of eliminating the caffeine is also chemical free. My lovely husband found one such brand for me at Coles, (after we had already looked at Woolies and IGA) and I tried it out last night - thinking it may take a while to get used to..........

Not at all! Its great! Slightly different taste to my normal coffee - but so far I'm glad I made the switch! I think I'll stay on this one all through my journey to conceive and then journey to keep a pregnancy (fingers crossed I get another chance), and who knows - maybe even after then, because it is the healthier alternative.