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Moderate caffeine intake has not been shown to cause miscarriage.

The Claim

Coffee consumption causes miscarriage.

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The Short Version

Coffee has not been established as a cause of miscarriage. Moderate caffeine intake—generally under 200 mg per day—has not been shown to raise miscarriage risk, while some observational studies associate higher intake with greater pregnancy-loss risk. Those studies cannot reliably separate caffeine’s effect from other factors and therefore do not prove causation.

Caveats

  • Associations observed at high caffeine intake do not by themselves establish causation.
  • The claim ignores dose: clinical guidance generally permits up to 200 mg of caffeine daily during pregnancy.
  • Coffee’s caffeine content varies considerably by beverage type, serving size, and preparation method.

The Receipts

  1. Annex F - Miscarriage care in Scotland: delivery framework - gov.scot

    gov.scot

  2. Moderate Caffeine Consumption During Pregnancy - ACOG

    acog.org

  3. A meta-analysis of risk of pregnancy loss and caffeine and coffee consumption during pregnancy

    obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

  4. Caffeine - MotherToBaby | Fact Sheets - NCBI Bookshelf

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

  5. Periconceptual Caffeine Intake and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: Results From the nuMoM2b Cohort - PMC

    pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

  6. Maternal caffeine intake during pregnancy and risk of pregnancy loss: a categorical and dose–response meta-analysis of prospective studies - PMC

    pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

  7. A meta‐analysis of risk of pregnancy loss and caffeine and coffee consumption during pregnancy

    doi.org

  8. Maternal caffeine consumption during pregnancy and the risk of miscarriage

    ajog.org

  9. Relationship between maternal caffeine and coffee intake and pregnancy loss: A grading of recommendations assessment, development, and evaluation-assessed, dose-response meta-analysis of observational studies - PMC

    pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

  10. Relationship between maternal caffeine and coffee intake and pregnancy loss: A grading of recommendations assessment, development, and evaluation-assessed, dose-response meta-analysis of observational studies

    doi.org

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