Most women gain too much or too little weight in pregnancy
by Claudia Boyd-Barrett posted in Pregnancy
Struggling to gain the correct amount of weight during your pregnancy" You?re not alone, according to a study published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Researchers reviewed data from 23 studies involving more than 1.3 million pregnant women. A whopping 47 percent - almost half of the women - gained more than the recommended amount of weight during their pregnancy. Meanwhile, about 1 in 4 of the women didn?t gain enough weight.
Watching your weight while pregnant can be tedious. But staying within the target weight range can help keep you and your baby healthy.
The analysis in JAMA found that women who gained too much weight in pregnancy had an 85 percent greater chance of delivering an oversized baby and were almost a third more likely to require a C-section compared with women who remained within weight-gain guidelines.
Women who gained too little weight were 70 percent more likely than normal-weight women to give birth prematurely, and their babies had a much greater chance of being too small.
Other studies have found similar risks associated with too much or too little weight gain in pregnancy.
For women who start pregnancy at a normal weight, The National Academy of Medicine advises gaining between 25 and 35 pounds. You can find your target weight range using BabyCenter?s pregnancy weight gain calculator.
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