AIM To assess the effect of maternal physical activity during pregnancy on abnormal fetal growth. METHODS The study group of 166 women in gestational week 6-8 exercised regularly three days per week at submaximal intensity during their entire pregnancy and the control group of 168 women received standard antenatal care. The main outcomes were macrosomia and intrauterine growth restriction. ...

Screening for gestational diabetes is commonly recommended despite the absence of a common definition of gestational diabetes. Furthermore, there is no consensus about management or treatment. Those who recommend screening do so largely on the basis of fetal morbidity, which seems to be predominantly "macrosomia"--another term without an agreed definition. The implications of macrosomia in term...

Obesity during pregnancy has been shown to carry significant risk to both mother and child. The role of uncontrolled weight gain during pregnancy has not been fully elucidated. The study analysed the incidence of gestational hypertension and fetal macrosomia in various groups of mothers according to their BMI and antenatal weight gain. A definite statistically significant increased risk of both...

The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of fetal macrosomia in newborns from mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and healthy mothers, as well as determining the influence of fetal growth on pregnancy termination, on complications in pregnancy, during delivery and puerperium and on neonatal complications. In the study were included 351 pregnant women with GDM, as well as...