Did you/are you drinking alcohol or caffeine during IVF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These responses...uhhh... You should not be drinking caffeine or alcohol during TTC. Especially alcohol. Any OBGYN worth anything will tell you that. Anecdotally do people get pregnant regardless? Yes duh. People also get pregnant while not trying. It doesn’t mean you will. Alcohol, even one glass, is scientifically shown to have positive associations with early miscarriage rates. And if you need alcohol for your mental health you should be in a different sort of treatment first.

I'm the pp who said up to 50mg. I told my RE that I was drinking a bottle of tea and she had no issue with it. One cycle I had zero caffeine and the other cycle no more than 1 bottle of tea (which could contain between 7-50mg depending on type). I actually had more blastocysts with the tea cycle.
Basically the evidence is mixed for low amounts of caffeine with 1 study showing a negative effect and the rest (4 studies at the time of this review) showing no adverse effects.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30196942/

For my FET and early pregnancy I had no caffeine but was so dysfunctional at work that in the 2nd trimester after consultation with my doctor started having caffeine again (up to 200mg) but typically stay below 100mg.
(When not trying to get pregnant I was a 200-300mg/daily caffeine user.) Ultimately you have to do the best you can balancing out functioning in life with health and pregnancy.

[Anonymous]

I drank alcohol and coffee during the IVF process. I gradually reduced caffeine leading up to the transfer. No alcohol or caffeine after transfer.

[Anonymous]

No. Not at all! I had enough troubles conceiving and maintaining a pregnancy I didn’t want this to be a reason! It was something I could control in the uncontrollable world of infertility. Five years I stopped! As soon as my child was born I DRANK a big old coke in the hospital. It tasted so good! I also was so happy to have my morning coffee again!