Pregnant Women and Caffeine

[Bengals_Mama]

Research published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology shows that pregnant women who drink two or more cups of coffee or five cans of cola per day are twice as likely to miscarry, compared to women who avoided caffeine altogether.

More here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/22/2143651.htm?section=australia

[Foxy]

And diet soda is WORSE!!

[acoolmom777]

Oh please....lol....2 kids and I drink 2 pots of java a day myself and more on friday nights and love my coke.....but I do drink alot of water too...and been doing this almost 30 years...my kids are fine...I say it must be something in the womans body system the reacts with different chemicals....

[littlelee]

I drank nothing buy Mt. Dew when I was pregnant with my daughter, and she is 9 years old. I probably did the same with my now 22 year old as well. I, too, think it is some type of chemical reaction in the mother's body.

[Brian K Beckett]

I think the caffene lobby forgot to pay the medical lobby.

[kdown]

Maybe the caffeine is stronger in Australia

[acoolmom777]

lol..yea mate you might be right...lol

[Bengals_Mama]

You could be right, it may be a chemical reaction. They say that a lot of women have miscarriages before they even know they are pregnant, so some of them could go by unknown. From what they are saying though when a woman ingests caffeine it speeds the fetal heart rate up, so I would say that's what does it.

I love my Mt. Dew too, but since I've been pregnant I only drink caffeine free, unless I'm out somehere that doesn't have it.. that's rare though. The thing that sucks is that for some odd reason I am craving Pepsi crazy right now, and I don't even like Pepsi..lol

[acoolmom777]

You could be right, it may be a chemical reaction. They say that a lot of women have miscarriages before they even know they are pregnant, so some of them could go by unknown. From what they are saying though when a woman ingests caffeine it speeds the fetal heart rate up, so I would say that's what does it.

I love my Mt. Dew too, but since I've been pregnant I only drink caffeine free, unless I'm out somehere that doesn't have it.. that's rare though. The thing that sucks is that for some odd reason I am craving Pepsi crazy right now, and I don't even like Pepsi..lol

I so know what you mean...when I was preg with 1st child...wanted choco yahoo (which I hated) and with 2nd child I couldn't get enough of Dr. Pepp...ewww and I really hate that stuff.......Also after each child my hair got darker....hey maybe they should test that...."caffeine makes your hair turn darker then gray....roflao......:p