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Is drinking coffee safe during your pregnancy? Get ready for some nuance | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

We live in the real world where pregnant people are people and shouldn’t be locked in a cage of guilt for nine months
‘Drinking absolutely no coffee might be the safest option, but the harms, if any, from drinking a cup or two a day seem to be extremely minimal.’ Photograph: kapulya/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Pregnancy seems like a scary time. Not just because you’re all of a sudden growing a tiny person inside you – although, yes, definitely that – but because there are a million people trying to terrify you with stories about otherwise-innocuous things. Sushi? Before pregnancy, it’s a delightful lunch. Once you’re pregnant, it’s suddenly horrifying poison, only to be eaten if you want to die of listeria or campylobacter or some other scary-sounding disease.

Also, and I cannot stress this enough, growing a.

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