Most women face unhealthy weight during pregnancy

Melbourne, June 7: Most women do not have a healthy weight during abortion, an Australian study released Wednesday. Monash University researchers studied 1.3 million pregnant women worldwide and gained more than half of the pregnancy during the pregnancy, but the quarterback could not get enough weight, Xinhua news agency reported. Helena Teede, the lead researcher, warned that women who did not gain enough weight faced an increased risk of premature birth while those who put on too much were more likely to require a caesarean birth.

Researchers analysed more than 5,300 international studies of pregnant women and found that at the beginning of pregnancy 38 percent of women were overweight or obese, 55 percent were "normal weight" and 7 percent were underweight. Teede said women who started at a higher weight were more likely to gain weight quicker as the pregnancy progressed. "You should not put on any weight in the first trimester, a little in the second trimester and just a little more in the third," Teede told Australian media on Wednesday.

"You should take a small amount of your calorie intake. You are not eating for two." She told that the study highlighted the need for strategies to monitor and optimize healthy weight among expected mothers. "This latest study means - more than ever - that weight needs to be monitored in pregnancy and women provided with support to improve lifestyle," Teede said in a statement. Health professionals need to be encouraged and trained in having "healthy conversations" introducing relatively simple effective lifestyle interventions to support women before, during and after pregnancy. "We know what to do and now we need to implement evidence available into action to help women and the next generation healthy."