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Medical organizations recommend a limit to the consumption of caffeinated drinks among pregnant women.
The suggested caffeine consumption by the European Food Safety Authority and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is less than 200mg per day. That is around two cups of coffee daily. Studies in the past that caffeine intake during pregnancy can affect a baby s growth. However, these studies have inconsistent results.
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The current study about caffeine and pregnancy
The recent study, which was led by Dr. Katherie Grantz, examined two things. The first was to explore the relationship between caffeine consumption among pregnant women and a newborn baby s physical properties. The second thing that this study examined was to observe whether the relationship between caffeine consumption and a baby s size is curbed by fast or slow metabolism.
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COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in pregnancy
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has already taken over 2.8 million lives worldwide while still continuing to cause tens of thousands of new cases every day. Many of these are pregnant women.
A new preprint research paper posted to the
medRxiv server shows that while pregnant women are seriously worried about their risk of contracting the infection caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), but are also hesitant to take the vaccine.
Pregnancy increases risk?
Some earlier reports suggest that pregnant women are more likely to develop severe COVID-19, with a higher risk of being admitted to the intensive care unit, being put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and death.
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Parents giving consent for their child for an abortion would have to get that consent notarized under legislation approved by a Senate panel Wednesday.
Sen. Liz Brown (R-Fort Wayne) said the reason for requiring notarization of parental consent for abortion is straightforward.
“We want to make sure that it is actually the parent,” Brown said, raising concerns about potential sex trafficking.
But Dr. Tracey Wilkinson said notarization adds costs, time and potential breaches of privacy for no legitimate reason.
“There are no other medical procedure consent requiring notarization in our state, Wilkinson said. And singling this one out, again, is stigmatizing it.”