The Reasons Why We Need To Decrease Our Intake of Caffeine?
April 20, 2010 by Michael Sylvester
Filed under Pregnancy
Older females in our families often dismiss this advice as absolute rubbish, and they tell us that they drank exactly the same amount of coffee for the entire duration of pregnancy, and their babies were all healthy. There has, however, been a lot of research since and low birth weights and premature births have been linked to caffeine.
The key question is; how much caffeine is safe to consume on a daily basis? Well, the experts tell us that anything under 300mg a day is fine. This roughly equates to an 8 ounce cup.
A lot of women find it easier to give up altogether than try and work out how much they can drink to stay in the safe zone. This is actually very easy to work out. If you like string coffee; one 8 ounce cup in the morning is absolutely fine, as this contains approximately 300 milligrams of caffeine, which id the cut off point.
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.
To sum it up, cutting out caffeine altogether is highly recommended, but if you feel that you still need your coffee, keep to guidelines of 300mg per day or less.
Don’t make the mistake of changing to decaf like many do, this still contains small amounts of caffeine, so by drinking lots of it you will exceed your daily recommended amount. The key is to go cold turkey as the risks definitely outweigh the rewards.
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