Your pregnancy guide says you should gain about 12kg while you're with child, and you're starting to get really worried because the needle on the scale is edging on 15kg…
Don't worry unnecessarily, says Dr Liza Fowler, a gynaecologist at the Louis Leipoldt Medi-Clinic in Cape Town.
It's not about how many kilograms you gain, but what you weighed before falling pregnant. Ideally, you should not gain more than 17 to 20 percent of your prepregnancy weight.
So, it's about percentages rather than a set number
