When we see those two lines appearing that confirm we are definitely pregnant, there are many things that women give up immediately. One of the main ones, and sometimes the hardest, is caffeine. Our several cups in the morning are replaced with something like herbal tea.
This is one of the areas where the old definitely disagree with the young. Tell you older female relatives that you have given up caffeine and they will probably laugh. This is the point where you will get the story about how they consumed gallons of the stuff and their children were all fine. A low birth weight and pre term births have been linked to caffeine, so why take the risk?
Consume more that 300 mg a day and your baby could be at risk. Drink over the recommended amount during your first trimester and the risk of miscarriage is slightly raised.
Drink any more than this recommended amount and their can be a slight risk to your child. The chances of having a miscarriage are also slightly raised if more than this is drunk during the first 3 months.
Eating a healthy, balanced diet is vital to your growing baby, so the fact that caffeine has absolutely no nutrition in it whatsoever is yet another reason why it should be removed from your diet.
Caffeine is also a well known stimulant, so can cause headaches, insomnia and also cause your heart rate to rise significantly. These all put stress on your growing fetus.
It also makes heartburn even worse, and this is bad enough in pregnancy anyway. Cutting out caffeine will make this easier to cope with.
Don’t think that you can still drink the same amount as normal if you change to decaffeinated coffee, as this still contains caffeine and you will go over your 300 mg. Play it safe and do without any altogether.
Besides Caffeine, this author also frequently pens articles about Rancilio Silva espresso machine and commercial coffee machines.
