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Decaffeinated Coffee

As an avid coffee drinker, I never understood the reason behind decaffeinated coffee. Seriously, you drink coffee for the caffeine fix! Why on earth would you ever want decaffeinated coffee, doesn’t it just defeat the purpose of the whole drink? I finally was shown the light as to why this sludge called decaffeinated coffee exists, and it was to sustain me with some sort of indulgence during my pregnancy. I found out very quickly that I did enjoy the flavor of coffee, and I wasn’t just drinking it for the caffeine fix.

You see, I’m one of those nutcases that reads up on everything that can possibly go wrong during pregnancy and try to avoid possible causes like the plague. I have avoided aspartame because they are unsure of the effects if may have, I have avoided lunchmeat because of the minute possibility of listeria infection, and I avoided caffeine because of the possibility that it may cause miscarriage. Now, keep in mind that you would have to drink at least three cups of regular coffee per day in order to reach the parameters that were measured in the studies, but I was convinced and scared enough to commit myself to only drinking decaffeinated coffee and sodas.

So, about halfway through my pregnancy, there is some expose show on television that looks into whether the decaffeinated coffee you order from different places is actually free of caffeine. Now, I know that decaffeinated coffee has some traces of caffeine and is not completely void of the substance. However, I did expect that I was not getting amounts close to that of caffeinated coffee. But you know what they found? That at several places, in fact almost sixty percent of the time, the caffeine levels in decaffeinated coffee was very similar to those of regular brew. Many times it was due to cross brewing or machines that were not thoroughly cleaned before the next pot was brewed. Now, in most situations that does not really affect anything. However, in situations where medical conditions may exist this is completely unacceptable.

I realize that my situation was far from one that this was truly affecting anything, but I am deranged enough that I completely cut out decaffeinated coffee out of my diet during pregnancy too, unless I brewed it myself at home. No more caffeine free flavored coffee during fall and winter until after pregnancy, and that little change of events certainly did not help my demeanor during those last few months!