Is Any Amount of Coffee Safe for Baby During Pregnancy?
By Denise Mann
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) Too much coffee during pregnancy could lead to kids with behavior problems later on.
That s the key takeaway from new research that examined 9,000 brain scans from 9- and 10-year-olds as part of the largest long-term study of brain development and child health. The goalposts are moved by caffeine, and there are subtle, but real changes in behavioral outcomes in most kids who were exposed to caffeine in utero, said study author John Foxe. He is director of the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.