Lol  at DD and Fiddlerman! My daughter did have caffeine as a newborn. They gave it to her so she would be alert enough to keep breathing. We sometimes told other people that she is a double expresso baby since they have to double the doses for her (because of her breathing issue, she stayed in a NICU for five weeks).

I love the smell of coffee. when I was little, my mother used to roast coffee beans, it smelled really good, but as kids, we were not allowed to drink coffee. I don't know why, but we do drink tea, though.

Back home, my family is famous for strong coffee, one time a teacher of mine said to the whole class, "If you go to her house, be sure to water down the coffee they offer you, one cup of coffee from their family is equivalent to three." I still drink strong coffee, so sometimes I find other people's coffee waterly.

I didn't really taste coffee until I was almost 20, liked it but not addicted to it. I became addicted when I was a student in Iowa. I quit after a year for a year or so then went back to it. I was poor, still am, so I could only afford the powder that Robyn would not taste.

I have never been in army, but I would drink any coffee. I cannot afford to roast my own coffee beans, grind my own coffee beans, brew my own coffee, $ wise. So powder again:). In the morning, i couldn't afford the time to brew coffee, so powder it is. At work during my morning break, I would brew a pot of coffee for those who also love/need coffee with whatever is available. We sort of take turn to bring in coffee so you get all kinds of coffee:) sometimes good, sometimes okay coffee, some time bad coffee. One time, there was only one kind of coffee left and seemed to have sat there for ages but still smell good, and i made it. Boy, it was the worse coffee I have ever had -- egg nog coffee.

One of my professors used to ask me, "Do you take your coffee black or white?" I couldn't decide then, because I like them both but now I think white. With instant coffee, i heat up a cup of milk and dump a heaped teaspoon of the powder in. With brew coffee, i made the coffee really strong, then heat up 1/2 cup of milk and pour it the coffee. I usually drink my coffee really hot (when I order it from starbuck or coffee bean, I have to ask them to make it super hot). I could also drink it luke warm or icy cold (especially on a hot day).

I try to limit my coffee intake to two 8oz cups per day, preferably before 12 noon because caffeine tends to stay in my system for 12 hours. If I had too much, I would wake up many times a night, if I had it too late, i would have hard time falling asleep.

Last but not least and hopefully this is not too much information: When my daughter was born, the nurse told me that it is okay to have coffee when I nurse her and coffeine in breast milk probably helped her to keep breathing as well (so maybe she was a triple expresso baby) so I kept drinking coffee. It's true that whatever you eat or drink goes to the baby, too. If I drank too much, my daughter would not sleep well as well!

Enjoy your coffee!