They Say

“Decaf, please, I have to have that decaffeinated.” Woman with swollen midsections and rounding stomachs constantly insist that they no longer are aloud caffeine now that they are expecting. But where did that rumor start? The pessimist in me had to question if it was even true. What makes caffeine so bad for you anyway?

So the search began when a friend of mine recently announced that she was pregnant. I started a investigating the effects of caffeine on pregnancy.

TalkAboutCoffee.com uncovers many discrepancies and misunderstanding in that area of caffeine and childbearing.

Some research goes to the one extreme of say that if you want to be able to conceive you should hold the caffeine because it hinders conception, while others say there is no effect at all. One Danish study showed that 300mg in the late trimester had no effect on the child.

It is generally understood that no caffeine is best, but some say that three cups is okay. But how big of a cup? One cup can hold a lot of caffeine. Take for instance the fact that an ounce of espresso has on average 50mg of caffeine verses a cup which varies from 80-130mg (Thanks Wikipedia). So what three cups is pretty vague. I usually get a double tall late, so that would be 100mg in 8oz. Would that be okay?

Basically, what I got out of the article was that everyone’s body acts differently to caffeine, and that in the end they really aren’t sure.