Overall health is very important during pregnancy. A healthy pregnancy will greatly affect the quality of birth and the baby is born. One factor that is not less important during pregnancy is weight control. The ideal body weight began to expectant mothers during pregnancy (pregnancy start) is between 45 to 65 kg. If less than 45 kg, body weight should be increased first to reach 45 pounds before pregnancy. So instead, when expectant mothers lose weight more than 65 kg, body weight should be lowered to below 65 kg before pregnancy.
Unfortunately, very often women who planned their weight before starting a pregnancy. In fact, expectant mothers weight of less than 45 kg or more than 65 kg, would make pregnancy a risk (low risk).
Expectant mothers weight of less (underweight) or excess (overweight), will risk having a baby with less weight or low birth weight infants. Babies with low weight would have disrupted the development and his intelligence, his physical health but also less good.
For the mother was no less risky. If overweight, he can bleed or poisoning pregnancy. At first, overweight, and tension rises, swollen foot, kidney problems, eventually poisoning pregnant. At birth, usually always happens complications.
Careful Pre-Eclampsia
How much weight gain is ideal during pregnancy? The formula, every month, up weight should be 1 kg to 20-week-old pregnancy. Then, up 2 pounds per month after 20 weeks of pregnancy. So, if women started pregnancy with weight 45-65 kg, the increase during pregnancy is ideally between 12-14 kg. Meanwhile, if the weight gain during pregnancy began under 45 kg, weight gain is recommended between 12,5-18 kg, and increased if 7-11,5 kg of body weight during pregnancy start for more than 65 pounds.
Weight gain is not in accordance with the ideal formula was not good and risky. For example, excessive increases or very fast. If this happens, you should be careful, because it could be an early indication of poisoning pregnancy (preeclampsia) or diabetes.
Not only that, the body of a pregnant woman can swell, either on foot or belly. It also can inhibit fetal growth. The reason, shipping food to the fetus to be reduced because of the narrowing of blood vessels. Well, if this narrowing of blood vessels in intensity, can be fatal to the fetus. Excess weight can affect the birth process. For example, no strong push.
Generally, improvement is rapid weight loss occurred at the end of pregnancy. Usually, excessive increases in particular during the month, up to 5 kg for example, your doctor will recommend a diet. Two months later, the future mother of your weight should be stable (may not be up and down). This could be done by rearranging the food list. Usually by reducing the intake of fat and carbohydrates, like sugar, rice, cheese, fries, and increased consumption of protein, like fish, meat, eggs, nuts, fruits, too, because it is indispensable for the growth of the fetus in the womb.
Food
What if your weight never rise or even fall during pregnancy? Pregnant women should eat lots of foods that contain fat and high carbohydrates, such as ice cream, avocado, cakes, until the weight increased, but remained in the ideal limit increase.
Usually, the difficulty of weight gain occurred in the early months of pregnancy. In the first trimester of pregnancy, pregnant women usually frequent nausea or vomiting, and loss of appetite. In fact, in this trimester, the brain, sensory and sexual organs formed fetus. If this continues until the next trimester, it is not possible fetal nutrition will be disturbed, so that growth becomes stunted fetus.
Therefore, prospective mothers must be clever-clever choosing food to maintain her appetite. To avoid sickness, you should avoid fatty foods, cold foods, or foods that are too acidic.
In addition, psychological factors also influence appetite expectant mothers. For example, if she was expecting her pregnancy or not. There are women who actually want not pregnant, but then pregnant. This course should be considered because it can affect the psyche and in the first trimester of pregnancy, weight gain should be increased, despite feeling sick or vomiting.
Usually, in the second trimester of pregnancy, expectant mother is calm, her appetite has recovered well. In this trimester, the nausea was gone. But, still have to be careful too, not to excessive weight gain.
Formula ideal weight gain should be considered correct. For example, this month should be up 2 pounds, but the increase was 2 pounds occurred in the first 2 weeks. So, the next 2 weeks she should diet. Or, the first 2 weeks, weight had not risen, then the prospective mother should pursue left in the next 2 weeks.
If the ideal weight is reached, the birth will go easily, without complications. Or, if any, just a little (low risk). Childbed also coming to an end, but also not damage the body shape. The ideal body weight during pregnancy will soon be back into shape to the original weight after giving birth. She was going back to beautiful, without the need to make every effort to slim down his weight.
Regularly Control your pregnant to the doctor
What should be done so that the ideal body weight can be achieved?
- We recommend that before you become pregnant, consult a doctor about the factors that interfere with pregnancy diseases, including weight loss.
- Follow doctor's advice about weight loss month per month. Ask a diet that matches your condition. For example if excessive, there must be a diet, and so on.
- Diligent control to the doctor. If doctors have good analyst and patients diligent to control also have no disease during pregnancy, whether it's diabetes or mumps, it is usually the standard weight is reached.
Damaged teeth can be problematic
Less weight or even not only in pregnant women who have lost their appetite. There are also prospective mother who ate a lot, but weight does not rise and rise. If this happens, the food composition must be checked. Maybe not consumed food nutritious, home just satiated.
If the quality of food consumed was good, but she's still thin, must be checked, is there something wrong in the digestive equipment or teeth. Teeth are damaged even sometimes make can not chew food properly, so can not be digested and absorbed by the body perfectly. As a result, the fetus does not get a good food supply, so that its growth was stunted.
What is clear, regardless of starting weight when pregnant, continue to match increases weight gain formulas. After the pregnancy weight gain should always take appropriate increase of the ideal. Do not after pregnancy and not eat because it was fat. If this is done, intake of nutrients to the fetus will be disturbed.
Ideal babies weight
How many actually normal fetal weight according to age? At 20 weeks of gestation, fetal weight of approximately 0.5 kg. At 36 weeks gestation, she had to reach 2.5 kg. Furthermore, close to birth, the weight should be approximately 3 kg. The ideal weight babies is between 3-3,5 kg. If fetal growth is not in accordance with the formula above, should be investigated the cause. Whether there any abnormalities of the body, such as kidney disorders that cause hidramnion, or how the digestive system.