What beverages do you drink in pregnancy?

[Anonymous]

Water (both tap and filtered), 1 cup coffee/day, sometimes a cup of tea, San Pellegrino with fresh lemon or lime juice in it, low sodium V8, almond milk, regular milk (1%), very occasionally a grapefruit soda. Occasional glass of wine.

[Anonymous]

Another who drinks Brita at home and water cooler at work.

[Anonymous]

I drink seltzer and buy it by the case at Whole Foods or Shoppers. I hated plain tap water until I started on this kick several years ago and now I can totally do plain water just fine, especially if it's refrigerated. I went with seltzer over sparkling water after I realized that a lot of the sparkling water that I liked had some artificial flavors and sweeteners. Just find whatever works for you and go with that, and do the best you can.

[Anonymous]

I drink bottled water or tea. Occasionally, I crave root beer.

[Anonymous]

Filtered water--Filtrete, not brita, I find britas really slow to use. To keep myself interested I flavor it with lemon juice--I keep a bottle in my work and home fridge and when I'm at neither work or home I can usually rustle up a lemon slice. Baby girl is gonna love lemon.

I used to drink a lot of seltzer water but the burping you already get in pregnancy is bad enough, I don't need to make it worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Juice and milk are so unhealthy- just drink water. Sparkling or still, and flavor with fruit or frozen fruit ice cubes if you want. Fruit is nutritionally equivalent to soda.

Milk is not unhealthy. I know some alternative health people think so, but there is no evidence to back up a claim that it's unhealthy. I wouldn't drink it for thirst, though. And if OP is lactose intolerant, then she's obviously avoiding it.

And fruit is not nutritionally equivalent to soda (not even Robert Lustig says that!), even though like soda, fruit juice has too much sugar. Therefore, I wouldn't drink too much juice, and certainly not drink it straight for thirst.

When I was pregnant, I would mix a little bit of juice with filtered water. Maybe at a ratio of 1:8.

Even though I worried about everything in pregnancy, I didn't worry about the plastic of water bottles. But I mostly had filtered water coming from an undersink water filter into a glass anyway.

[Anonymous]

I try to drink as much water as possible, though I've had a strong water aversion this pregnancy (even with adding citrus, etc.), so it's not easy. My husband installed a reverse-osmosis filtration system in the house, and that's what I drink. Also milk (organic, skim), decaf coffee, tea, occasionally wine. Cokes during the first trimester, since they helped settle my stomach.

Those are pretty much the same things I drank pre-pregnancy (Cokes aside), have never been much of a soda or juice drinker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Juice and milk are so unhealthy- just drink water. Sparkling or still, and flavor with fruit or frozen fruit ice cubes if you want. Fruit is nutritionally equivalent to soda.

Milk is not unhealthy. I know some alternative health people think so, but there is no evidence to back up a claim that it's unhealthy. I wouldn't drink it for thirst, though. And if OP is lactose intolerant, then she's obviously avoiding it.

And fruit is not nutritionally equivalent to soda (not even Robert Lustig says that!), even though like soda, fruit juice has too much sugar. Therefore, I wouldn't drink too much juice, and certainly not drink it straight for thirst.

When I was pregnant, I would mix a little bit of juice with filtered water. Maybe at a ratio of 1:8.

Even though I worried about everything in pregnancy, I didn't worry about the plastic of water bottles. But I mostly had filtered water coming from an undersink water filter into a glass anyway.

PP, all human beings are lactose intolerant. Dairy is not good for you and we've only been made to think so because of the dairy lobby in the US. Fruit juice is essentially sugar, processed from fruit instead of corn, without carbonation. It *might* have vitamin C. If your only source of vitamin C is fruit juice though, you probably have bigger problems.

[Anonymous]

Water from our in-home filter and perrier. Some OJ and some gatorade (very little).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Juice and milk are so unhealthy- just drink water. Sparkling or still, and flavor with fruit or frozen fruit ice cubes if you want. Fruit is nutritionally equivalent to soda.

Milk is not unhealthy. I know some alternative health people think so, but there is no evidence to back up a claim that it's unhealthy. I wouldn't drink it for thirst, though. And if OP is lactose intolerant, then she's obviously avoiding it.

And fruit is not nutritionally equivalent to soda (not even Robert Lustig says that!), even though like soda, fruit juice has too much sugar. Therefore, I wouldn't drink too much juice, and certainly not drink it straight for thirst.

When I was pregnant, I would mix a little bit of juice with filtered water. Maybe at a ratio of 1:8.

Even though I worried about everything in pregnancy, I didn't worry about the plastic of water bottles. But I mostly had filtered water coming from an undersink water filter into a glass anyway.

PP, all human beings are lactose intolerant. Dairy is not good for you and we've only been made to think so because of the dairy lobby in the US. Fruit juice is essentially sugar, processed from fruit instead of corn, without carbonation. It *might* have vitamin C. If your only source of vitamin C is fruit juice though, you probably have bigger problems.

Evolution says otherwise. Have you heard of breastfeeding? Lactose is the sugar in breastmilk and truly lactose intolerant infants are extremely rare. Post-infancy, humans have been drinking animal milk for thousands of years. It was such an advantageous adaptation that once the mutation allowing it arises in a population it spreads incredibly quickly.

[Anonymous]

Water, orange juice, milk, homemade smoothies with fruits & veggies. Sometimes when I'd get bored of water I'd stick in ice and slices of strawberries or cucumber to mix things up a bit.

[Anonymous]

Mostly filtered water (I bring reusable bottles to work). One cup of coffee per day and an occasional glass of wine.--Pretty much the same as I drank prepregnancy, except that I've cut back to a smaller cup of coffee and cut back on the wine big time. I'll occasionally drink milk (usually in hot chocolate) but I get most of my dairy from plain Greek yogurt.

[Anonymous]

Seltzer with a splash of cranberry juice.

[Anonymous]

1 cup coffee a day. Water throughout the day, sometimes skim milk with lunch. Skim milk with dinner. Occasionally a seltzer water. 1/2 a glass of wine every other week if I fee like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Juice and milk are so unhealthy- just drink water. Sparkling or still, and flavor with fruit or frozen fruit ice cubes if you want. Fruit is nutritionally equivalent to soda.

Milk is not unhealthy. I know some alternative health people think so, but there is no evidence to back up a claim that it's unhealthy. I wouldn't drink it for thirst, though. And if OP is lactose intolerant, then she's obviously avoiding it.

And fruit is not nutritionally equivalent to soda (not even Robert Lustig says that!), even though like soda, fruit juice has too much sugar. Therefore, I wouldn't drink too much juice, and certainly not drink it straight for thirst.

When I was pregnant, I would mix a little bit of juice with filtered water. Maybe at a ratio of 1:8.

Even though I worried about everything in pregnancy, I didn't worry about the plastic of water bottles. But I mostly had filtered water coming from an undersink water filter into a glass anyway.

PP, all human beings are lactose intolerant. Dairy is not good for you and we've only been made to think so because of the dairy lobby in the US. Fruit juice is essentially sugar, processed from fruit instead of corn, without carbonation. It *might* have vitamin C. If your only source of vitamin C is fruit juice though, you probably have bigger problems.

PP you quoted here. As the other PP already stated, you are trying to spread nonsense here. Or do you have any convincing sources for this? I'm positive you don't, and I think we shouldn't start arguing here because I know your dairy lobby argument in your mind will trump everything. Never mind that there are many peoples around the world who have consumed dairy for centuries without being under the influence of the US dairy lobby.

I partially agree with you about the juice, with regard to the sugar (soda usually has other additives and is therefore worse, and fruit juice can have other healthful ingredients besides vitamin C), but your original post said "fruit" is equivalent to soda, and that's what I was reacting to. I know the paleo diet crowd tends to condemn fruit as well, but research has shown that whole fruit is not a problem, despite the sugar.