Your Pregnancy

Plussize & pregnant

If life were fair, pregnancy would be that one time in your life when you could eat as many bars of chocolate as you want without worrying about weight gain.

But life just isn’t fair, and the last remaining area of weight nonchalance is under attack.

New studies are showing that being obese and pregnant can be very risky indeed – both for you and Baby.

Even though doctors allow a (stingyish) 12kg increase over the span of pregnancy, they throw another spanner in the works: this guideline is for women with a healthy BMI only.

The plus size among us need to

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