The News
Pregnancy weight guides questioned
By Malcolm Ritter The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 04/01/2007 11:29:47 PM MDT
New York - The standard advice for how much weight a woman should gain during pregnancy may need to change, concludes a rigorous and provocative study suggesting that even accepted weight gains may raise the risk of having an overweight toddler.
Women in the study who gained the recommended amount of weight ran four times the risk of having a child who was overweight at age 3, compared with women who gained less than the advised amount.
The outcome was about the same for women who gained more than the advisable amount.
So what's a pregnant woman to do? Clearly, she shouldn't gain more weight than recommended, said the study's lead author, Dr. Emily Oken of Harvard Medical School.

The Research
Read the research behind this story in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.