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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No but don't drink caffeine. [/quote]

Small amounts of caffeine are fine. My doctor encouraged me to drink caffeinated soda to treat occasional headaches because my migraine medication was not safe for pregnancy. I wouldn’t drink a fully caffeinated coffee every day, but a lower dose of caffeine now and then is totally ok.[/quote]

Recently associated with adhd.[/quote]

Only one study has shown a correlation and it involved extreme levels of caffeine intake (multiple highly caffeinated drinks a day), and even that one was correlative, not causation.

There is zero evidence that small amounts of caffeine during pregnancy will have any affect on children whatsoever. Many women find that caffeinated beverages helps them modulate stress and tiredness during pregnancy, or as in several PP's examples, control issues like migraines. Why would we tell pregnant women not to take a substance that could lower their stress, help them maintain energy, and possibly even avoid taking other, potentially harmful, medications? Especially when there is no evidence that the substance negatively affects children except potentially at very high intake levels? Why is that a trade-off people think makes any sense at all?

I am so tired of people treating pregnant women like children who can't make their own choices. I drank alcohol and caffeine in small amounts throughout my pregnancy, with the blessing of my doctor, and feel zero guilt about either. And have a healthy, happy child. [/quote]
Yes to this. It’s the same with not including pregnant individuals in drug trials. It is actively harmful to pregnant women to not be included in medical research, and to not have any data to refer to when making risk assessments. It puts a tremendous burden on women with chronic  conditions that require medication, like depression, to not have any real data to inform their decisions. [/quote]

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