How many cups a day?

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- 2012.01.16 at 2:41 am #8417
  
  Sara M
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  Thank you for your detail description about tea recommendation for pregnant women. Can you help me clarify how many cup of tea I can drink if I am using ordinary tea bag tea? I normally use the English Breakfast from Dragonfly (UK brand).
  
  Thank you in advance.
- 2012.01.16 at 2:42 am #9154
  
  Sara M
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  I forgot: I am asking for a friend who is 3 month pregnant.
- 2012.01.16 at 8:10 am #9155
  
  Leo
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  Hello Sara, Please let me know how you make tea with that English Breakfast teabag. In particular, how many cups do you make from the same bag, the length of the infusion time, the water temperature (approx will do) and if you repeat infusion with the same bag, how many times? If I remember right, Dragonfly uses the kind of teabag that is a loop so it is rather like two normal teabags in one, right?
- 2012.01.16 at 4:31 pm #9156
  
  Sara M
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  Thank you for following up. The teabag is 2.5 gram. I steep it for about two minutes in a mug. Boiling water. I use a new bag for every mug.
- 2012.01.17 at 6:15 am #9157
  
  Leo
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  If you are of average size, not particularly allergic to caffeine, not particularly weak in the stomach, and if your mug is also average mug size, ie around 220~250 ml, you can safely have 6 mugs a day. Don’t drink your tea when it’s turn cold though.
  
  Wish you a good healthy baby.
- 2012.01.18 at 9:49 am #9158
  
  Sara M
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  Thank you Leo. Again, I am asking for a friend, but it’s nice to know for myself too. Do you recommend any other tea than English Breakfast during pregnancy?
- 2012.01.19 at 5:28 pm #9159
  
  Leo
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  If she was already overweight before pregnancy, better tea than black teas are White Peonies or post-fermented pu’ers (pu-erhs).
  
  If she is normal, or if she has become ‘puffy’ (swollen with water), Phoenix or Wuyi oolongs are the most appropriate teas to help gaining better health.
- 2012.01.20 at 5:16 pm #9160
  
  Sara M
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  Xie xie, although that sounds a little too demanding on us finding such teas here. We’ll try.
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