Can pregnant women drink coffee?
Can pregnant women drink coffee? Coffee is not good for pregnant women. Drinking it regularly during pregnancy is not conducive to your own health care. The caffeine contained in it can stimulate pregnant women, make their heart beat faster and raise their blood pressure. Excessive caffeine intake will affect the development of fetal brain, heart and liver and other important organs, so pregnant women had better drink less coffee.
The harm of pregnant women drinking coffee
1. Some studies have found that pregnant women who consume more than 300 milligrams (mg) of caffeine every day have a higher probability of miscarriage. It is reported that consuming a lot of caffeine during pregnancy may slightly increase the chances of premature delivery or low birth weight.
2. Some studies show that if expectant mothers consume more than 500 milligrams (mg) of caffeine every day, their babies' heart rate and breathing frequency will be faster, and their babies will stay awake for longer in the first few days after birth.
Caffeine is a stimulant, so it will speed up your heartbeat and metabolism, which may cause insomnia, nervousness and headache; Caffeine can also stimulate gastric acid secretion, causing heartburn.
Caffeine is also a diuretic, so it will make you go to the toilet more frequently and dehydrate more easily.
Caffeine not only has no nutritional value, but also leads to the loss of calcium in bones. As the due date approaches, the adverse effects of caffeine are likely to become more serious, and the slower the body metabolizes caffeine, the higher the caffeine content in your blood and your baby's.
6. A cup of coffee contains about100 ~150mg of caffeine. Caffeine has the risk of causing baby's toe deformity and cleft palate.