I’m a relatively liberal mom, but there was one thing I was never willing to do: allow my baby to try soda. It’s probably easier because I don’t really drink soda at all, so it wasn’t much of an issue. I will admit, though, that there were plenty of times when I was [...]

I love coffee. Every morning begins with a cup. Whenever I head off to a meeting or have a long drive ahead of me I’ll stop by Starbucks or another local shop and load up on some coffee. Yes indeed, I am a fan of coffee.
When I got pregnant I stopped drinking coffee [...]

I can’t count the number of times that I have popped a couple of Tylenols while drinking my morning coffee. Sometimes I wake up with a little headache - not surprisingly, this usually happens when the kids wake up crying in the middle of the night repeatedly - and every morning I enjoy a [...]

The day I found out I was pregnant, the lead story on CNN.com was “the dangers of caffeine for pregnant women.” Ah, the Universe loves irony.
A few years ago, I sported a pin on my jacket that read, “Give me coffee and no one gets hurt!” In the past year, I’d “cut back” to about [...]

On the heels of a Mount Sinai School of Medicine research which concludes that moderate coffee intake during pregnancy is safe and does not increase the risk of miscarriage, here’s another research saying otherwise. I have written before about confusing research, and here’s another proof.
So here’s the puzzle. The snag on earlier [...]

There is new hope for pregnant women who need their daily cuppa joe. A study from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City reported on January 9th found that moderate coffee intake during pregnancy does not increase the risk of miscarriage.
In the study, 2,407 pregnant women consumed two cups or less of coffee [...]