While an obese woman has the tendency of not menstruating regularly and so affect her chances of being able to be pregnant, even when they become pregnant, they stand the risk of developing hypertension in pregnancy and gestational diabetes in pregnancy. Gestational diabetes is the type of diabetes that is first developed during pregnancy.
According to him, “Obesity in the woman who is pregnant has a lot of implications in the sense that some complications such as hypertension in pregnancy and gestational diabetes among many other health problems tend to influence the outcome of her pregnancy. The baby could be very big, have retarded growth while in the womb, be born as a still birth and so on.”
“Research has shown that weight gain in pregnancy is intimately likened with the tendency to develop such complications in pregnancy like hypertension in pregnancy, gestational diabetes e.t.c.. The link is in terms of hormones and the tendency of lipids triglycerides and other body fats that were deposited having effects on body organs like the heart and the blood vessels thus predisposing them to problems such as complications in pregnancy like hypertension in pregnancy and gestational diabetes,” he stated.
However, the weight gain to aim for will vary among women and depends on several factors, including the mother’s pre-pregnancy weight, height, age, and health status, as well as whether or not the birth will involve twins, triplets, or more. Dr. Fawole declared that what is termed as normal weight gain should be between 8 and 12 kg and anything above 12kg is excessive, but this also depends on whether the woman was not on the obese side before pregnancy.
Also, if the body mass index is to be used as a yardstick to know what is normal, he said the normal BMI should lie between 19 and 25kg/metre square.
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