This doesn’t just relate to women, as experts say the male partner’s caffeine consumption is also strongly linked.
Scientists at the National Institute of Health found that women who drink two caffeinated drinks during the first seven weeks of pregnancy are more likely to miscarry.
As a result, experts recommend couples lower their caffeine consumption when they decide to try for a baby.
Dr Germaine Buck Louis, director of intramural population health research, said: "Our findings provide useful information for couples who are planning a pregnancy and who would like to minimize their risk for early pregnancy loss."
The team at the NIH came to their conclusions after analysing data from the Longitudinal Investigation of Fertility and the Environment Study
The study looked at the relationship between fertility, lifestyle and exposure to environmental chemicals.
The researchers studied 344 couples with a singleton pregnancy from the four weeks before they conceived, through the seventh week of pregnancy.
Multiple lifestyle factors were compared, including cigarette use, caffeinated beverage consumption and multivitamin use.
Researchers measured the results using a ‘hazard ratio’ – which estimates the chances of a particular health outcome occurring during the study time frame.
They found that caffeine consumption in both the male and female had a direct link to miscarriage.
Dr Helen Webberley GP for the Oxford Online Pharmacy spoke to Express.co.uk about the dangers caffeine has for our bodies, revealing: “High levels of caffeine have been implicated in late miscarriages, stillbirths and low birth-weight babies.”
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