If you wish to wander the internet and have enough time on your hands you can find enough studies to support the fact that consuming caffeine while pregnant will, with out a doubt, cause hyperactivity in a child/development delays/miscarriage and still birth/absolutely no measurable effect on a fetus/alertness in the mother/everything in between.
Caffeine was first found in natural plants in the forms of the coffee berry, the tea leaf, the cocoa bean and a few other lesser known plants. People in early cultures would chew leaves of certain plants or drink concocted beverages before they knew it was caffeine they were consuming. They noticed certain leaves or berries gave them more energy and vitality (wings, as it were).
When these early cultures consumed caffeine it was either as a luxury item or as a social ceremony. There weren't any coffee shops or tea houses. It is safe to assume cave babies had other things to worry about than how much caffeine they were exposed to in vitro.
We now live in a coffee fuelled world. Some woman have a two, or three, or six coffee-a-day habit before they become pregnant. They have to weigh the caffeine addiction and benefits against possible risk to their baby.
If you ate a pound of dirt it would be bad for you, if you got dust in your mouth it would not harm you. As with most things in life, practise moderation, don't eat a pound of coffee.
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