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A simple guide on how to use activity to help manage your weight during pregnancy. For women with a BMI of 25 or over at the start of their pregnancy.

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This range aims to minimise weight gain during pregnancy.

Target Group will understand:

  • that minimising weight gain will:
    - reduce complications for them such as impaired glucose tolerance, gestational diabetes, miscarriage, pre-eclampsia, thrombo-embolism and death
    - improve gestational diabetes management
    - help to reduce hypertension and its related complications
    - reduce complications for their baby such as macrosomia, congenital abnormality, childhood and later life obesity, and foetal death
    - improving long-term health benefits, including returning to pre-pregnancy weight, future fertility, ability to breast feed, mental health etc.
  • how to make simple lifestyle changes for Target Group and their family via a balanced diet and increased activity for long-term health
  • the benefits of breast feeding for Target Group and their child.
  • Active living: keeping active during and after pregnancy, NHS Health Scotland (2004)
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  • Ready, Steady, Baby www.readysteadybaby.org.uk (accessed 31/07/14) NHS Health Scotland
  • Have a healthy diet in pregnancy http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/healthy-pregnancy-diet.aspx#close (accessed 31/07/14) NHS Choices
  • Soltani H. Dietary interventions more effective than physical activity or mixed interventions for weight management during pregnancy. Evidence-based medicine (2013) 18;2: e12
  • Special Issue: Saving Mothers’ Lives: Reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer: 2006–2008. The Eighth Report of the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the United Kingdom British journal obstetrics and gynaecology (2011) 118;S1:1-203
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NDR-UK Ref No: 9365E
Classification: HP
Related Printed Version: 9365
Publication Date: 12/10
Last Review: 2018

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