Mom Weight May Affect Fetal Development

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For a pregnant woman is very important to examine pre-pregnancy weight and during pregnancy. With that weight control should be in accordance with existing signs. It is expected that pregnancy would be lived with healthier, and baby’s growth potential can be optimized.

For a pregnant woman who is too thin, then the main thing to do is increase the size of the meal. But keep in mind for the number of servings of foods in moderation. Although weight gain during pregnancy is necessary to prevent premature birth and low birth weight, but keep in mind that weight gain did not reach the target during pregnancy will not much affect the state of pregnancy. So, pregnant women do not need to make efforts that are too hard to raise the amount of weight.

Excessive weight gain is feared could lead to obesity. There is a mistaken assumption which says that the pregnant mother’s stomach that looked small would indicate that there is a fetus in the womb will not grow well, and also a frequent cause of a pregnant woman to be overweight. Though a pregnant woman whose belly plasticity seem small in general due to the layer of fat in the abdominal wall was thin and pregnant women is not due to impaired fetal growth. The existence of this misconception is a cause for pregnant women to compete to eat to excess for stomach enlarged. There is also a presumption that one who said if pregnant women were obese, the fetus in the womb that there would be growing larger. However, a large layer of fat that is present in maternal abdominal wall, not the fetus is in the womb.

Regardless of weight gain for pregnant women, fetal growth was relatively similar in all pregnant women in trimester I to be towards the end of second trimester. There are exceptions in pregnant women who experience chronic kidney disease. In the early third trimester, you will see the growth of the baby deviation from normal growth curve, whether it will be late or excessive.

For pregnant women who are obese.
As mentioned previously, being overweight during pregnancy can lead to obesity for an extended period. For that you should never assume that pregnant women need to eat for “two people”. However, you should go on a diet. Losing weight really should not be done during pregnancy. What needs to be done by pregnant women is the number of calories that enter the body.

For added calories pregnant women ranges from 100-300 cal per day. If the previous total calories per day needs ranging from 2.000 to 2.100 cal per day, then with the addition of 1 / 10 or 1 / 7 of the total has been to meet the need of calories in the body.

At the beginning of the first and second trimester so need to be kept for weight does not rise too quickly for the fetus is still small size does not require nutrients in significant amounts. And for part II trimester of pregnancy, weight gain for pregnant women strived to be no more than 500 g per week. This can be done those obese pregnant women by reducing consumption of high fat foods such as fried.

Factors that could affect fetal development
Please note that fetal growth is not only determined by the weight of the mother at the time before pregnancy or maternal weight gain during pregnancy. However, determined by genetic factors and also the size of blood vessels from pregnant women to the uterus and placenta, which is a channel that is feeding to the fetus in the womb.

Uterus of a non-pregnant woman is not able to receive supplies from about 50 ml per minute. Meanwhile, during pregnancy, uterine blood vessels will have to drain the development of up to 600 ml of blood every minute. In the event of disruption of blood vessel development of the uterus, the fetus is in the womb can not grow well even though the agency has experienced a drastic increase of Albert. The development of uterine blood vessels may be monitored using Doppler ultrasonografia examination.

Other things that can affect fetal development are the habit of consuming drugs and smoking. Bad habits will lead to the development of the fetus to be bad, so it will result in premature birth and low birth weight. It is necessary to stop some bad habits you.