A healthy weight during pregnancy: A dynamic advice

Suboptimal weight gain during pregnancy is a modifiable risk factor that endangers the health of both mother and child. Although severe adverse birth outcomes have been reported, a lot of ignorance remains about the ideal weight during pregnancy. Multiple determinants influence the expected weight gain, but in practice, medicals emphasize the individual approach too little. This article represents a comment based on a recent population-based retrospective cohort study (2004-2013) that assumed some associations between gestational weight gain and adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes. The aim of this comment is to provide a critical evaluation of the publication and create clarity about the optimal weight gain according to periconceptional BMI. Even more, our goal is to underscore the importance of an individual approach. Pregnant women should at least step on the balance every prenatal visit, and extra attention is required is obesity.

Jaar van publicatie:2020

Toegankelijkheid:Open