The recommendations: depending on the figure between 0 and 16 kilos of Weight gain
Despite the comparatively small impact, the researchers also identified the level at which the weight gain of mothers and children, depending on the output figure of the healthiest.
Recommended optimal weight gain during pregnancy
The participants of the study available to more than 45 per cent did not fulfil these objectives: the 11.3 percent of women gained too little weight, 33.8 percent had recommended at the end of the pregnancy more Kilos on the scales. Most of them won especially in the first half of the pregnancy weight.
With regard to women with extreme Obesity, the advice should be interpreted with caution. In this group, only data of a few participants were available to researchers. This also explains why women with obesity grade 2 according to the results, less increase than women with obesity grade 3. A biological cause for this result was unlikely, the scientists write.
The recommendations coincide roughly with the advice of the world health organization (WHO), which were published in 2017. Accordingly, you should:
- underweight women between 12.4 and 18 kilograms increase
- normal weight women between the ages of 11.5 and 16 kilograms,
- overweight women between the ages of 7 and 11.5 kg, and
- obese women between the ages of 5 and 9 kg.
Almost half, missed the goals
The BMI prior to pregnancy have a greater impact on the health of the mother and child than the weight gain during pregnancy is an important Information for the counseling of women planning pregnancy, the researchers write.
At the same time, the results imply, however, that don’t should not make mothers go crazy, if you adhere to the advice on the weight gain. It is, in addition, that the researchers in their recommendations suffered only on the area focused, in which women are less likely than the average complications. They have also included women, where the risk was exactly the average, would have been the Margins larger.