phenalayline...?

I have heard pretty bad things about it. Apparently sugar is far better than the sweetener so I have been sticking to normal coke (limited of course) Do you like normal coke??

yeah i like normal coke, and have had a few glasses but trying to stay away from all that sugar! I remember hearing that it was bad, and i havnt had it, but I dont remember exactly what it was about the stuff that was bad - now I am curious - I wonder what exactly it does?!?!?!

I think someone posted one of those "Foward" email things where it says along the lines our parents (or grandparents) smoked, drunk, ate seafood, bla bla bla (can't really remember it!) and we turned out fine... But then you look on the other side of it and asthma, obesity etc are on the rise...
But what I am trying to say is "all in moderation" - When I was preggaz I ate pretty much anything - that was mainly the fact that I was in denial about it for so long. But Arna turned out fine, still is and has only had 2 bugs since she was born (both tummy ones too!)
If you feel like a glass of coke, have one! just not 2.25l bottles at once!!

I'll second Robyn on all that - you'd have to eat a horrendous amount of gum to suffer any ill-effects from the artificial sweetener in it. I still drink lime and diet tonic on a hot day (ahhhh it's soooo good!), which has some phenylalyne in it but does not taste sweet enough to have much. I don't think the occasional diet drink could hurt, but then again, unless you don't do well with sugar, neither would the occasional sugary-drink (in my barely-informed opinion I might add... don't want to make myself sound like an expert on this!).

you don't have to stick to water though - there are plenty of other things out there - like orange juice!!! i know i know - this will start something about how bad orange juice is and all that cos of the sugars, but pure orange juice will give you aheap of vitamin c, help you absorb iron and it's alot better for you than fizzy.
that said, i did have a rule of only 1 glass of coke per day during pregnancy. i didn't always have 1 - most days i had none.. but that 1 glass i allowed myself stopped me craving it cos i knew i could have it if i wanted.

ps... flavoured milk is also good - i got hooked on that when preg - having a couple of small bottles a day! the way i see it, all the calcium makes up for the probable sugar content in it from the flavouring

haha yer once glass a day of orange juice is counted towards the amount of fruit u need a day so if u need 2 fruits then the glass of orange counts as one

Mmmm im so there with the chocolate milk!!! I cant get enough i drank a litre in a sitting the other day

ohhhh i LOVE charlies!

I guess the critical thing is that there is a big difference between naturally occurring sugars and artificial ones.