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Published online 17 October 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061016-5
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Should pregnant women avoid coffee altogether?
Animal study suggests even low caffeine doses could affect fetus.
Tentative evidence has emerged to suggest that low doses of caffeine, equivalent to just one or two cups of coffee per day, can affect the development of unborn babies.
The findings are almost certainly too preliminary to prompt public health officials to change official advice to pregnant women, who at present are told only to avoid large amounts of caffeine.
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