A new study suggests that caffeine can contribute to pregnancy loss.
According to the study from researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Ohio State University, women who drink more than two caffeinated drinks daily during the first seven weeks of pregnancy are most likely to miscarry.
This not only applies to pregnant women—men’s caffeine intake was found to be just as problematic.
“Our findings also indicate that the male partner matters, too,” said Dr. Germaine Buck Louis, director of the Division of Intramural Population Health Research at NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
“Male preconception consumption of caffeinated beverages was just as strongly associated with pregnancy loss as females,” he added.
The study said that if a woman and her partner drink more than two caffeinated beverages daily during the weeks leading up to conception, it will mostly like cause pregnancy loss.
