Facing a pregnancy with a high body weight means also facing some risks. As they have proven numerous investigations and ratifies a new study, overweight and Mother's obesity brings complications in pregnancy and childbirth.
Among the most frequent complications that pregnant women with overweight or obesity develop is the possibility of having a baby that is too big.
The delivery of a macrosomic baby (too large) has more risks than those of a normal-sized baby, running the risk of suffering an injury such as shoulder dislocation, of ending up in an instrumental delivery or in a caesarean section.
The gestational diabetes It is also related to being overweight and influences the risk of having a baby that is too big. But the study we talked about earlier, conducted by researchers in Chicago, found that even regardless of diabetes, women who are overweight or obese are at greater risk that the baby will be too large.
Women with a body mass index (BMI) of 42 or more, that is, quite high, were three times more likely to have an extremely large baby than thinner women.
On the other hand, the mother's obesity is also related to preeclampsia, a tension increase caused by pregnancy potentially dangerous for the mother and the baby. Specifically, they found that the risk of developing it was 14 percent higher than in thinner women.
It has also been linked with congenital baby malformations such as spina bifida, certain hernias or defects in the extremities and even with an increased risk of fetal death.
Therefore, experts understand not so much control weight gain during pregnancy (but also), but that women face pregnancy with a healthy weight to avoid complications during pregnancy and childbirth.
