Caffeine

I’ve heard that caffeine isn’t good in pregnancy. Did you cut back?

Our Mommy MD Guide’s reply: Before I got pregnant, I had been drinking quite a lot of coffee. Before I started trying to get pregnant, I cut back to one cup a day. I couldn’t get down to zero, but I did cut back significantly.

—Siobhan Dolan, MD, MPH, a mom of three, a consultant to the March of Dimes, and an associate professor of obstetrics & gynecology and women’s health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, in New York City