I\u2019ve always been a tea lover.\u00a0 I loved tea long before I even knew about coffee (I\u2019ve been meaning to ask my mom when she started letting me drink tea\u2026seems like I was very small when I was drinking iced tea).\u00a0 My favorite is chai lattes and herbals (Orange spice or a nice apple cinnamon in the winter time\u2026mmmm) though I\u2019ll gladly take a good black or iced tea too.\u00a0 After a year of being off tea (and now trying to avoid caffeine), it\u2019s taken me time to get back to my prior tea preferences but I\u2019m getting there slowly.\u00a0 Most of the time I don\u2019t even think of tea as an option when I\u2019m thirsty (despite having an entire cabinet in my kitchen dedicated to all things tea!).<\/p>\n
I had to cut out tea completely from diet when Sugarplum was a baby.\u00a0 At just a few days old, poor Sugarplum scared me to death.\u00a0 While shopping for stickers one day at a craft store, I looked down into sweet baby girl\u2019s face (who was comfy cozy in her car seat) just in time to see her projectile vomit EVERYWHERE!\u00a0 After the initial shock, horror and a lengthy clean up back at the car we settled back into our day\u2019s plan and I ignored it.\u00a0 Until it happened again a few days later and again after that. At her one month checkup I asked her doctor if he thought it was something I was eating or anything else to worry about and he said probably not and to just wait it out.\u00a0 Well, after a few more projectile vomiting messes I decided I had to do something so began keeping a food diary where I wrote down what I ate when and marked when she threw up.<\/p>\n
The culprit?\u00a0 Tea.\u00a0 Totally weird.\u00a0 Only tea.\u00a0 Herbal teas were fine (since they don\u2019t have any actual tea) but black, green, white, ACTUAL \u00a0tea got her.\u00a0 Everyone I mentioned it to had some explanation:\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s probably the caffeine\u201d but I could have unlimited coffee and cola.\u00a0 \u201cIt must be the tannins\u201d but wine did not bother her.\u00a0 To this day I do not know what it was about tea that made her so volatile but every time I had it until she was about a year old she would vomit.\u00a0 I started slowly reintroducing tea to my own diet at around a year old and she was able to tolerate it.\u00a0 Now I\u2019m curious to see when she\u2019s older if she will be able to tolerate her own tea drinking or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve always been a tea lover.\u00a0 I loved tea long before I even knew about coffee (I\u2019ve been meaning to ask my mom when she started letting me drink tea\u2026seems like I was very small when I was drinking iced tea).\u00a0 My favorite is chai lattes and herbals (Orange spice or a nice apple cinnamon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-baby-business","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}