الأربعاء، 19 سبتمبر 2018

Pregnancy weigh-ins were stopped in the 90s – and they’re still a bad idea | Lucy Jones

Yes, talk about healthy diets and weighing if there’s a problem, but calls to make this mandatory are misguided

In the latest “pregnant women are doing it all wrong” news, the weigh-in may return in an effort to stop Britain’s expectant mums piling on too many pounds.

Midwives stopped weighing pregnant women in the 1990s because there wasn’t any clinical evidence to suggest it made a difference to the health of the woman or their baby. In fact, regular weighing was thought to cause stress and anxiety.

Related: Midwives call for pregnancy weight targets after study highlights health risks

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Oz2e7y

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