A recent study looked at over 5,000 pieces of work relating to key indices of later overweight and obesity in children. And out to those 5,000 articles they eventually called it down to about 200 and the most important factor was pre pregnant body mass index. So there's something prior to conception a key factor that influences whether your toddler is overweight and obese.
Keeping a healthy weight gain during pregnancy is very important as well, and a lot of general practitioners probably don't actually talk to mothers about the concept of a healthy weight game, because it sometimes seems been an uncomfortable conversation. But it's very important and are on that specific guidelines about weight gain for good health outcomes for the baby and the toddler.
So if you have a normal pre-pregnancy body mass index you'd be expecting to gain between 11 and 16 kilos during pregnancy. But if you are in the obese range that a weight gain should only be between 5 and 9 kilos. So these are important conversations, because there are important outcomes associated with weight gain during pregnancy. So it's all around energy intake the concept of eating for two is not a concept we want to promote.
In fact the increasing energy that's required is really only around three to four hundred K cals in the last two trimesters. So you're not eating for two. They need to be making sure that micro nutrient intakes are raised slightly. And a general practitioner will be able to give this advice or even potentially suggest that the the woman sees a dietician to really get into the detail.
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