how overweight questions

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How overweight do you need to be before it Is a problem in pregnancy?

What will they do about it?

Am overweight, not obese (I hope!) but definitely significantly over what I should be for my height and build. Am a good size 16, and 5"5 ins.

Just worried that I should be losing weight before getting up duff.

Ive been over weight for all 3 of my pregnanies, size 16 with first, size 18 with 2nd and now with my 3rd im almost hitting the size 20 mark!!

The only thing I have had different to my Slimer friends is a Glucose Tollerance Test (GTT) this detects diabeties which is more common in overweight ladies. Apart from that i havent been treated any diferently so far!

Hope this helps

Yes it does thanks Mumma . Ive heard some v scary stories about lectures,extra scans and weigh ins etc..

Im ttc #3, and not been significantly as heavy in my past pregnancies.

in my notes it says if maternal weight greater than 85 kg then refer for GTT at 24-28 weeks, and if BMU greater than 40 to refer to hypertension clinic at book.

Sorry last post should have said if BMI > 40

My BMI is 43 So I am well over the norm this is my third pregnancy I am 15 weeks. I have had no problems that are weight related in any of my Pregnancy's I have also just refused the GTT test although I had it with my first two or which both times it came back fine. I am likely to have an extra scan at 36 weeks as its hard for them to determine where the baby is. They have said in my last two PG's that the babies were big. DS1 was 7lb 6oz and so was DS2

Hmmm - I have BMI of 40 and have been 'offered' a meeting with a dietician,(and had it put in my notes that I'd refused,) reminded that being overweight might have caused the 2 miscarriages I had last year, been put automatically under consultant care, and yesterday had to wait over 2 hrs for an appt with an anaesthetist which just involved her telling me that 'everything' is more difficult because I'm a heifer.
Don't get me wrong, I know it's not good but being told once would have been fine and there's sod all I can do about it now!!

oh bsmirched thats awful what a way to be treated.

My BMI is 33, clinically obese, according to the charts. I tried and tried to get my weight down before i fell pregnant but to no avail. I was actually shocked that this didn't put me in the high risk group (BMI >35) apparently. But been offered GTT at 28 weeks (if BMI >30) which I will have. I know it's not the nicest way to spend 3 hours (hanging around hospital and drinking a sweet mixture) but why refuse? If you do develop gestational diabetes you are putting yourself and your baby more importantly, at risk by not knowing about it and treating it appropriately

I had a BMI of 35 at my booking appointment which is classified as obese. I was offered a dietician's appointment. In our Trust, that's basically sitting in a classroom and being told what you'd expect to be told. Luckily the midwife didn't follow it up. My weight issue was antidepressants and using food like some people would use booze or drugs when stressed; and not that I couldn't count calories or recognise the difference between the GI of a bowl of porridge or a bowl of cocoa pops.

Anyway since then I've not really had any agro for it (except my mother nagging ). Yes I had to go to an anaesthetist's appointment (but that was also because I've got a mildly deformed spine). The anaesthetist was far more concerned that I didn't want pain relief but then I guess she doesn't get to see that many births without her intervention. And when I booked in for a home birth I had to get the Supervisor of Midwives's rubber stamp. As I don't live on the fourteenth floor of a tower block, then she was fine about it.

Otherwise, in my experience, tests have been just the routine ones that everyone has. If sugars & proteins in urine / BP had been up, then I guess they'd've been more twitchy - but then they would be with anyone.

Luckily until a month ago, I had managed not to put on any weight at all during pregnancy (now 34 weeks). It's creeping on now, but then baby is putting on weight.

Larger women are more at risk of shoulder dystocia when delivering (about a 0.6% incidence in women of appropriate weight; 1% in overweight women) which obviously has its own complications, but there are risks in everything. The only way to truly avoid them is not to get pregnant in the first place.

I only know this from looking at the booklet from my midwife (doesn't actually affect me personally), but at my hospital, you are automatially classed as high risk if your bmi is greater than 35. That means you have consultant let care (rather than midwife led) and must give birth in the labour ward (i.e. not at home and not in the birthing unit). I hear from a friend that they are pretty strict about this where I am.