First Trimester of Pregnancy Forum - First Trimester of Pregnancy Question

It has not yet been confirmed that caffeine from coffee has a negative impact on a fetus. For the mother, caffeine has a slight psycho-stimulatory effect on the brain, providing higher psychic attention and wakefulness. Caffeine affects the neuro-vegetative system causing two opposite processes: hypo-tension and hyper-tension. In some people, both processes are neutralized so that there are no changes in blood pressure. In other people, one of the processes is stronger so that caffeine causes blood hypotension or hypertension. Caffeine also increases the secretion of stomach acid which makes the condition worse in people who suffer from peptic ulcer or gastritis. The pregnancy itself doesn’t make caffeine’s effects stronger or weaker than usual. Therefore, I believe that there are no differences between caffeine's effects on pregnant versus unpregnant women.

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