Diet Or Regular Soda During Pregnancy

Diet drinks during pregnancy may be worse than regular soda.

Diet or regular soda during pregnancy. The best choice when it comes to a drink for pregnant women is water natalie b. Diet soda and pregnancy is an issue that still has not been completely decided. During pregnancy it is safe to drink one or less than one serving 1 serving 330 ml of soda or diet soda per day. The researchers did not find a link between sugary beverage s during pregnancy.

Allen a registered dietitian and clinical instructor of dietetics at missouri state university told the list. Drinking it during pregnancy was linked to poorer fine motor visual spatial and visual motor abilities in early childhood around age 3. Diabetics need to limit sugary beverages such as regular sodas although an occasional diet soda containing nonnutritive sugar is usually acceptable. Staying well hydrated will help curb your craving for diet soda and will also reduce symptoms of caffeine withdrawal.

Aim for 8 glasses of water per day. By mid childhood age 7. While one diet soda sweetener may be considered safe another may not so it is important to know the sweeteners that are. Whether you consume soda containing sugar or artificial sweeteners the caffeine in soda can be refreshing but it can be harmful to the foetus.

Alison hill the caffeine content in diet coke is not high enough to be a threat to pregnancy. However if you are pregnant drinking water becomes even more important than before. The researchers did not find a link between sugary beverage s during pregnancy and babies bmi which is a measure of weight in relation to height. One large study of more than 60 000 pregnant women found that those.

In an interview with. According to los angeles ob gyn and author of your pregnancy your way dr. You d have to drink a lot of soda every day. Diet soda wasn t much better.

In fact a diet coke has 47. To be on the safe side you may want to limit the amount of soda you drink. By kathryn doyle reuters health women who drank artificially sweetened beverage s like diet soda every day while pregnant were more likely a year later to have infants with a higher body mass index bmi according to a new study. Women who drank artificially sweetened beverage s like diet soda every day while pregnant were more likely a year later to have infants with a higher body mass index bmi according to a new study.

An occasional soft drink is not likely to do you any harm. Pregnancy aside one of the most important things you should be drinking each and every day is water.