Coke & Diet coke proven contraception
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Topic: Coke & Diet coke proven contraception
Posted By: skp
Subject: Coke & Diet coke proven contraception
Date Posted: 05 October 2008 at 2:24pm
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This weekends herald, in section A is an article about scientists proving that coke and diet coke affect fertility, maybe read it to get all the facts but very interesting!
Anyway just thought everyone TTC might be interested!! |
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Posted By: LJsmum
Date Posted: 05 October 2008 at 4:12pm
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yip heard that one it's all the chemicals particularly the caffeine. Caffeine is really bad. I avoided all caffeine during pregnancy. -------------  
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 05 October 2008 at 5:08pm
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i havent read it(dont have a paper) but i drank a lot of caffiene and still got pregnant twice very quickly though i drank very little during pregnancy after being paranoid bout the miscarriage.. you'd have to have over the equivalent of i think 3 cups of coffee a day for that to happen though...i had absolutely no drinks with artifical sweetener in them though...planning to ttc soon and planning to cut down a little but not stop. ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: kobec
Date Posted: 05 October 2008 at 5:47pm
| Was it saturday or sunday herald does anyone know. I just tried to look it up online but had no success.....??? |
Posted By: WestiesGirl
Date Posted: 05 October 2008 at 9:38pm
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I only drink coke once maybe twice a week and never drink diet coke so doesnt really affect me as such. Howerver I am interested in reading the artical, so will have to find it online. ------------- Our Angel July 08  Gone but not forgotten
And to complete our family, our princess has arrived 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 05 October 2008 at 10:31pm
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I'll have to drag out the paper that I didn't get a chance to read yesterday. I drink a lot of diet coke and it did take a while to conceive the gremlins, but I didn't cut back and managed to get pregnant very accidentally with Chiara. I don't drink it while I'm pregnant coz it makes the hyperemesis worse. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: choco69
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 7:03am
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was this the article you were talking about http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10535609 - nzherald article
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Posted By: JadeC
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 7:25am
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Aren't they talking about using Coke, um, internally? Because I'm definitely not doing that! ------------- http://pregnancy.baby-gaga.com/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 7:35am
Yea, I think they are... http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14864-cocacola-douches-scoop-ig-nobel-prize.html?DCMP=ILC-tabView&nsref=dn14864 - this website gives a few more details. I've knocked diet coke on the head because of the caffeine, but I wouldn't worry too much about it 
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JadeC wrote:Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 8:25am
Ew...diet coke douches  that would be extremely uncomfortable!-------------  
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Posted By: skp
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 9:16am
| it was in saturdays paper. eewwwww was it internally?? Thats just weird!!! |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 9:21am
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what? I dont want to read it but who would do that?!!! ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 9:42am
Good question...!?  The mind boggles.
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 9:49am
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According to the new scientist article it was a method used during the 60s/70s (the era of free love when contraception was hard to come by). It's a bit of a folklore tale and the scientist wanted to prove or disprove it. They did a controlled test tube experiment. Apparently diet coke works better than normal coke but because sperm can shoot through your cervix in a matter of seconds it's probably doesn't work as well IRL because you're not going to be able to get the diet coke up there fast enough before the quick swimmers speed up the vagina (just incase anyone was thinking of trying this method at home
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).Posted By: BugTeeny
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 9:51am
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ooh, fizzy!
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Posted By: sweetpea
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 2:49pm
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I guess it's in the same line of using vingar for the same thing. Aren't you all pleased we live in a modern society where contraceptive is realtively easy to obtain if its needed/wanted.
As for the whole caffine thing its an excess of caffine rathers than just caffine on its own that increases the chances of m/c so just cut back and remember its in chocolate too. |
Posted By: WestiesGirl
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 10:26pm
LOL!!!!! ------------- Our Angel July 08 Gone but not forgotten
And to complete our family, our princess has arrived
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Posted By: Parki
Date Posted: 07 October 2008 at 11:11am
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Gross
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Posted By: fallen
Date Posted: 07 October 2008 at 6:08pm
| That would really put the vagina out of wack and more prone to fungal and bacterial infections! |