That Coffee’s Gonna Shrink Yer Baby! Bean Boy Unavailable For Comment
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According to this recent study, if you’re Dutch and drink six cups of coffee per day, your baby might be slightly smaller than average. Thanks, Science!
Researchers found that among more than 7,300 Dutch women followed from early pregnancy onward, between 2 and 3 percent said they consumed the caffeine equivalent of six cups of coffee per day during any trimester. On average, their babies’ length at birth was slightly shorter than that of newborns whose mothers had consumed less caffeine during pregnancy.
Heavy caffeine consumers also had an increased risk of having a baby who was small for gestational age — smaller than the norm for the baby’s sex and the week of pregnancy during which he or she was born.
Read the study here. (Really, it’s not worth the time, unless you’re Dutch. And pregnant. And want to read about the study’s failed attempt at finding anything else out about the effects of caffeine during pregnancy.)
All I know is that my and a very close co-worker of mine’s babies were huge and our wives drank coffee. Thank God for coffee or we may have lost our wives!! Both babies 21-23in long, both over 10# and both our wives are fairly petite. Take that Dutch Women!!
In gestating European mothers.
This is not a failed attempt at anything. This study succesfuly illustrates the relative safety of caffiene for gestating mothers.
So yes, thanks science!