Obese and pregnant

Obese and pregnantThe issue of childbearing among overweight women is not as complex as you might imagine. Pregnancy is always a danger of complications, the question is what are the additional complications that can cause obesity before pregnancy until delivery.
Women with very overweight are more likely to encounter difficulties in getting pregnant, and the risk of complications during pregnancy are higher. It must be reinforced medical surveillance.


Obese women are more prone to fertility problems, often due to abnormal ovulation. They are thus often appeal to the medicalized reproduction following a treatment to stimulate the ovaries, which are themselves less effective if too much overweight assistance.Overweight may therefore increase the time of conception of a baby.

Many women subject themselves to a weight loss before embarking on pregnancy. You should know that it is not really necessary. Losing a few pounds will not decrease complications. By cons it can help to address the pregnancy with extra comfort. In fact, doctors simply advise women to be more possible shape before you get pregnant.

In fact, pregnancy an obese woman is likely to happen as that of a woman of normal weight, but requires more attention and monitoring by the physician. Blood sugar levels should be monitored in order to detect a possible gestational diabetes. Risk of vascular and renal complications (hypertension, eclampsia, retro placental hematoma, phlebitis) are not to be overlooked either, and blood pressure monitoring.

Obesity predisposes to any caesarean, the risks are the same for a thin woman. The thickness of the fat can be a problem, however, to realize Caesarean section for some forms of obesity. Anesthesia also request the delicacy because the products used will stay in fat and clear more slowly. On the other hand, ultrasound is sometimes less accurate: the fat can hinder the passage of ultrasound. As for the epidural, it does not present a risk even if it is more difficult to implement.   

There is no need to separate obesity and pregnancy. Any obese woman is above all a woman that has the right to be a mother. Fertility is closely dependent on psychological factors, think that obesity and pregnancy are mutually exclusive will not facilitate procreation. Forget also the erroneous idea that it would need to lose a lot of weight to consider a pregnancy. 

Being obese and pregnant is not invincible, it is simply to be more vigilant and aware of the risks of medical complications. During this key stage of life, the most important is to be well surrounded, both by the medical profession (consult a dietician can be very useful) and your surroundings.
 

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