28 Mar 2021

Is any amount of coffee safe for baby during pregnancy?

From Sunday Morning, 7:18 am on 28 March 2021

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Too much coffee during pregnancy could lead to kids having behavioural issues later in life. That's the key takeaway from a new study that examined 9,000 brain scans from 9- and 10-year-olds and found that caffeine consumed during pregnancy can change important brain pathways in baby. Study author John Foxe is the director of the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester.

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