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📢 文末扫码进裙,免费领取双语精读版 Coffee During Pregnancy May Not Be As Bad for Baby As Thought Newsweek Health 16 Oct, 2024 | 701 words | ★★★☆☆ Can you still drink coffee when you are pregnant? It's a widely held belief that no amount of caffeine is safe during pregnancy. However, the intense fatigue brought on by pregnancy makes a pumpkin-spiced pick-me-up ever more enticing. "Caffeine is a stimulant and known to affect the sympathetic nervous system, the 'flight and flight' response in humans," Andrew Shennan, Professor of Obstetrics at King's College London, told Newsweek. "It will cause an increase in blood pressure and is known to stimulate and alert by increasing activity in nerves. As nerves affect all blood vessels, there is concern that blood supply may be compromised to a baby in pregnancy." Previous research has suggested that increased maternal caffeine intake may be associated with problems in the brain development of children. However,
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