Diet coke

[Hansardk]

Is diet coke safe during pregnancy? I've heard mix reviews. I've been drinking it and I'm now 33 wks pregnant

[genamarie]

I'd say it's not the worst soda you could be drinking, that's for sure. Sometimes I'd imagine it's okay to drink soda, especially if you can't help it because you were so used to it before, but I think occasionally is fine. I know people who drink several Mountain Dews a day while pregnant, which is awful stuff, it's high in sugar and caffeine.

[shastas84]

Aspartame and splenda are both cleared by the few for pregnancy. Stevia is the only artificial sweetener that hasn't been studied and is therefore not recommended. :)

[Bellababy2013]

I looked into all of this cause I'm a pop drinker and when I started trying to get preggo I wanted to be informed. Both the caffeine and the aspertain are bad for you in general. I find when I crave pop its for the taste and the sugar...best thing to do is get caffeine free coke. It gives you the taste and the kick of sugar your body is craving. Diet pops are just bad. Anything artificially sweetened just makes you crave it more cause your body doesn't get satisfied by chemicals. I hope that helps :-) I also found ginger ale, orange fanta, sprite and 7up are all caffeine free :-)

[Sarah765]

No its definitly the asparteme that is bad, but thats the reason you should never drink diet soda.  Asparteme is pure poison. Just do your research on it.  Also watch out for pedialite for babies they started putting that crap in there too.  Your much better off with a sugary soda then that stuff.  You want to take it easy on the caffeine too, but I would definitly worry more about the asparteme then anything.  

[taymill]

Well I wouldn't think that was too good either... I'm not saying its something wrong with it. But I know too much caffeine can be bad for baby. N trust me I know how hard it is to stay away from certain soda while pregnant... I love soda too! But if ur doc is telling u its ok. I wouldn't really worry about it. Just be careful.

[Hansardk]

Ok so it's the caffeine that's bad. Not the aspertaine?

[taymill]

The only thing I drink sometimes is ginger ale, especially when I'm having a soda craving. Just cut back n try not to drink so much diet coke Bcus the caffeine is not good for baby:-)

[wasabic]

I drink zero cola and my doctor says is ok as long us u dont have to much because it has coffein wich to much can hurm the baby