Obesity in pregnancy
It is considered an obese pregnant woman who starts pregnancy at a mean overweight of 20% or more for your ideal target weight. To consider a pregnant woman is taken as a parameter obese increased over 15 kg at the end of gestation.
Being either case, both are more likely to suffer complications during pregnancy. For example:
a) is seven times more likely to have hypertension.
b) have a much better chance of bleeding during childbirth.
c) is more likely to suffer from edema, swelling, etc..
d) You are more likely to suffer varicose veins.
e) Prolonged labor (at a rate of 25%).
f) C-sections with complications (at a rate of 33%).
g) Diabetes after pregnancy at a rate of up to 40%.
h) newborn weight higher than normal.
Weight control of pregnant women with problems of obesity should be under strict medical supervision, since any deficiency or disorder in the calories from the diet, may adversely affect the baby and herself. The pregnant woman should not lose weight but to increase between 9 and 11 kilograms.
In this regard, it should be noted that a low-calorie diet should not contain a quantity of less than 1,600 calories per day because otherwise it would determine an inadequate utilization of dietary protein, even if your submission is longer than usual. During lactation, observed the same behavior, with an increase of up to 1,800 calories daily.
Be aware if their obesity problem will be resolved in the future, after pregnancy and the birth of your baby are well advised to take into account the diet of the appendix, and observe if possible before pregnancy.
Between 30% and 40% of the weight gained during pregnancy is preserved after delivery (3 to 4 kg in a normal pregnancy). The extra kilos due to high-calorie are more difficult to lose later, and often the same problem of excess weight is repeated in subsequent pregnancies.
It must be borne in mind that pregnancy does not completely transform a woman’s body is the power and desire that this change does not involve disruption or the health of the pregnant or the baby.
We must exclude any type of medication to cut the appetite as well as diuretics and thyroid hormones, dangerous drugs themselves, and completely prohibited during the period of pregnancy due to the harmful effects to the fetus.
But being too obese is also a risk to the mother. Weight gain means an increased workload of the liver, kidneys and circulatory system, which would add to the body’s efforts to carry out the pregnancy problems of obesity (hypertension, diabetes, edema, swelling, etc.. .)
Ideally, start with the ideal weight and in good shape, so that later weight control does not become an obsession or the physician nor the pregnant woman.