One of the women I cared for last year decided to lose some weight while she was pregnant and got hold of the weight watchers diet (couldn't join officially because of pregnancy), which, as most would know is just good balanced eating, and combined it with lots of walking and lost about 6 kg while she was doing this. This translated to a large loss of fat and she looked and felt really good because of it. Her baby was 4kg and healthy. It helped that she was staying with her Mum (husband was in Iraq) who also followed the diet with her (and got her cholesterol down to the best it has been in years), and her sister owns a gym so supervised the exercise. What most of us think of as dieting where we really cut the calories to low levels does not give us the necessary nutrition for pregnancy but balanced eating and cutting out the rubbish that may have contributed to the weight gain should give good results. Cheers Judy
--- Kylie Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have another question for you all! > > I know a woman who is pregnant, currently about 27 weeks. She > has been told > by her doctor that as she is very overweight (100+kg) she > should put on as > little weight as possible during pregnancy. At 27 weeks she > has only put on > three quarters of a kilo, and doctor is very pleased! I > didn't know what to > say to her. Is such a small weight gain safe for the baby? > According to > the textbooks, average weight gain is 3-4kgs in the first 20 > weeks and then > half a kilo every week after that (of course, wide variances > occur and every > woman is different), but the books that I have don't say if > it's different > for obese women. > > Less than a kilo of weight gain at 27 weeks...any thoughts? > > Thanks > Kylie > > _________________________________________________________________ > realestate.com.au: the biggest address in property > http://ninemsn.realestate.com.au > > -- > This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. > Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or > unsubscribe. > ____________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take your Mail with you - get Yahoo! Mail on your mobile http://au.mobile.yahoo.com/mweb/index.html -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
