Hi!! I am a little early to be jumping in to this forum but at ten weeks today I thought I'd just have a peek!

Coffee is something very close to my heart. My doc says there is no medical reason to give up coffee. I did some research and found that the study that most of this no-coffee junk comes from was done on rats. To cause the same defects as were found in the study, the equivalent amount of coffee a 70kilo woman would need to drink is 600 cups per day! Obviously a bit more than most of us would drink. Other studies I found indicate that anything less than 5 per day is nothing to worry about. One other thing noted is that there is often a general correlation where people who drink loads of coffee may also smoke more, consume more sugar, drink more alcohol, drink less tea and water, and eat less well than those who tend to drink less coffee. This is a bias that is not always taken into account in medical studies.

Of course all of that is only in relation to pregnancy. As we all know there are plenty of other ways that drinking too much coffee can affect us.

I would love to be drinking my daily 2 cups of coffee but unfortunalty my pregnant brain has decided that coffee at home makes me sick! Weirdly, I can drink a cup when I go out? Placenta brains are very mysterious

Anyhoo - hope you are all doing well! See you in a few weeks