BACKGROUND Obesity during pregnancy is a serious health problem for women and their children. Despite the high prevalence of high body mass index (BMI) among women of reproductive age in high-income countries, there is insufficient evidence to inform practice and policy about weight management for women with high BMI who are pregnant. The aim of this project was to describe women's and midwives...

BACKGROUND The relationship between maternal body compositions and birth weight was not definite. Fat Mass (FM) and Fat Free Mass (FFM) can accurately reflect the maternal body fat compositions and have been considered as better predictors of birth weight. Despite its potential role, no studies have been described the maternal compositions during pregnancy in East Asian women previously. We inv...

Efforts to prevent postpartum weight retention in extant clinical trials of African American women have proven exceedingly challenging. The primary purpose of this pilot study was to determine whether a behavioral intervention implemented in early pregnancy through 6 months postpartum could increase the proportion of African American women who were at or below their early pregnancy weights by 6...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) modify the relationship between gestational weight gain (GWG) and child birth weight (specifically, presence or absence of low birth weight (LBW) or presence of absence of macrosomia), and estimates of the relative risk of macrosomia and LBW based on pre-pregnancy BMI were controlled in Wuhan, China. METHODS From June 30, 2011 to...

OBJECTIVE To determine the median interpregnancy maternal weight change between first and second pregnancies, and second and third pregnancies and to assess the impact of this weight change on pregnancy outcome in a cohort of women with a macrosomic first delivery. STUDY DESIGN Prospective longitudinal study conducted over three pregnancies from 2007 to 2015. SETTING Tertiary referral mater...

BackgroundPoor nutritional status and inadequate food intake during and prior to pregnancy not only effects women’s health but also have negative impacts on growth and development of fetus. The birth weight of infant is a powerful predictor of growth and survival of infant and is dependent on maternal health and nutritional status. Maternal nutritional status, pre-pregnancy weight, body-mass-in...

BACKGROUND Data on extreme obesity and placental abruption are scarce. This study aimed to determine the association between pre-pregnancy weight and placental abruption and whether pregnancy weight gain impacts this risk. METHODS We used the Missouri maternally linked cohort files (years 1989-1997). Analyses were restricted to singleton live births (n = 461 729). Maternal body mass index (BM...

Despite the growing number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–infected women who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, there is limited information on body weight status and weight gain in pregnancy in this population. The issue is relevant, because inadequate or excessive body mass index (BMI) and weight gain in pregnancy are risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes in the general popula...