When you picture getting pregnant, you might think of that time as a period when you should gain weight with abandon (after all, that's how a lot of TV shows and movies position pregnancy). But weight ...

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In a recent study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, researchers reported that gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and obesity were associated with severe coronavirus ...

Pregnancy is the happiest of times, but it can be a dangerous time, too. If you're overweight and pregnant, your physician will tell you about additional precautions needed with a plus size pregnancy.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the relationships between gestational gain, race/ethnicity, reproductive history, age, education and the risk of becoming overweight after pregnancy. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective ...

The cognitive health and development of boys may be impacted by their mothers' body mass index (BMI) while pregnant with them, according to research from Columbia University and the University of ...

I remember well the days when women were told to gain no more than 24 pounds in the nine months of pregnancy. Some women took the restrictions on weight gain to an extreme and failed to gain enough to ...