overweight and pregnant

If you want your baby to develop healthy eating patterns, don’t load up on cheeseburgers and milkshakes while you’re pregnant. Research on rats found that a high-fat prenatal diet produces ... READ MORE

Pregnancy Weight Rules Refocus

The heavier you are, the less weight you should gain during pregnancy. That's the new word from the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, MSNBC.com and The Associated Press ... READ MORE

How Much Weight Should I Gain?

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The Big Picture

There have been some really big changes in the land of obstetrics in the last decade and much of it comes from the fact that mothers and babies are getting bigger. A reader wrote in ... READ MORE

When Will I Show, When Will I Go?

It's a good week to answer questions. I'll try to tackle a few. Amber wrote wondering when she should expect to start looking pregnant and when to go to the doctor. The doctor part is easy to ... READ MORE

overweight & pregnant

In increasing number of American women who want to get pregnant soon might want to reconsider their timing: They’re overweight. A study that looked at 53,000 pregnant women’s weight at their ... READ MORE

Pound Foolish

From the outset, I had no trouble accepting two immutable laws of nature: 1) Pregnant women get big. 2) Over time, they get bigger. In fact, I greatly enjoyed this process, as evidenced by my ... READ MORE

Weight Gains

If you’ve worked long and hard to be fit and trim, you may not take kindly to the idea of pregnancy’s portliness. While you might envy a friend who slipped back into her old jeans a week ... READ MORE

the gain game

If you’re confused about pregnancy weight gain, it’s no wonder: In one recent study, 49 percent of doctors gave their pregnant patients the wrong advice, and 27 percent gave no advice at all. ... READ MORE

Does Size Matter?

When she got pregnant with her first daughter, now 5 years old, Christy McDonald weighed 160 pounds, which was 15 pounds over her longtime weight of 145. She never imagined that being ... READ MORE