Excess
weight gain during pregnancy increases the risk of a number of pregnancy complications including gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, fetal growth abnormalities and increased difficulty during labor and delivery.
Not exact matches
If you
gained too much
during pregnancy, your maternal stores also
increase, affecting your ability to lose
weight after giving birth.
Another thing to remember is if you are not
gaining enough
weight during your
pregnancy, you can try
increasing your intake of other nutritious foods first, and then try adding an extra fat serving each day.
will
increase in size and the baby's brain also starts maturingn As fat begins to accumulate in the baby's body its skin will develop a pinkish color which is revealed
during the
pregnancy week 33 ultrasoundn Pregnant women tend to
gain more
weight during their third trimester as the baby is growing at a very fast rate and
gains around five to nice ounces every weeke
You can learn about normal
weight gain during pregnancy here and what to do if you believe you may be
increasing in
weight too quickly...
Gaining too much
weight during pregnancy may lead to several problems including hypertension, which
increases your risk of developing pre-eclampsia and gestational diabetes.
A woman being obese (BMI of 30.0 or higher) prior to getting pregnant
increased the odds of her child being overweight at age 2 by more than two-fold compared to women who had a normal pre-
pregnancy weight (BMI between 18.5 and 25), after adjusting for
weight gain during pregnancy, gestational diabetes and breastfeeding.
A new Kaiser Permanente study, published in Pediatric Obesity, found that pre-
pregnancy obesity and excessive
weight gain during pregnancy was associated with an
increased risk of the child becoming overweight at age 2.
And every kilogram
gained during pregnancy increased a baby's
weight by about 9.5 grams, according to the analysis, which published online August 4 in The Lancet.
If female babies are born more prone to obesity, the likelihood of their
gaining too much
weight before or
during pregnancy increases, thus putting their offspring at greater risk.
Children born to mothers who
gained too little
weight during pregnancy were at
increased risk for schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses later in life, according to new epidemiological research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
If you stayed within your doctor's recommended
weight gain during pregnancy, you may need to
increase your daily energy intake by up to 500 calories while breastfeeding.