The increase in weight at pregnancy is natural. However the excessive completeness threatens future mother and the child with a number of complications with health. That pregnancy proceeded favorably, giving only pleasure of future mother, it is necessary to control a set of weight and in the absence of any contraindications to lead active lifestyle.
Excess weight at pregnancy
The most common cause of considerable set of weight during pregnancy is an overeating. The hormonal changes happening in a body of future mother lead to increase in appetite, and systematic violation of a diet — to failure of work of the hypothalamus controlling the need for saturation. It can lead to uncontrolled overeating which simply brings benefit of mother and to the child, but also is capable to do harm to health.
Despite common opinion that the pregnant woman has to eat for two, the growing fruit needs only 300 additional kilocalories especially as at pregnancy the power consumption is reduced. Future mom tests drowsiness, various indispositions, and she more often wants to lie down, have a rest. Unspent calories address in emergence of fat deposits.
The optimum increase of weight at pregnancy fluctuates within 9-15 kg. At the same time if the woman already suffers from excess weight, the admissible increase makes 10 kg, and at the established obesity and that it is less - 6 kg. The weekly set of weight exceeding 1 kg is considered a disturbing signal. This indicator can speak both about undesirable fat deposits, and about a congestion of excessive liquid in an organism. In total, at the normal course of pregnancy the woman gains during the first trimester about 1.5 kg, the second — about 5 kg, and the third — about 4 kg. Though, certainly, weight is especially individual indicator. Besides there are special risk groups in relation to which usual measures are not applied. Women with the expressed obesity or, on the contrary, a considerable shortage of weight, the young girls and women bearing polycarpous pregnancy treat them. Calculation of calories for these categories is carried out only by the obstetrician-gynecologist who conducts pregnancy, at assessment of all indicators of health.
What a big set of weight at pregnancy threatens with
Excess weight gives additional load of cardiovascular and nervous system of mother which already work in the emergency mode. Also the backbone and internals suffers. The uncontrolled increase in weight threatens future mother with development of such diseases as a hypertension, diabetes, a varicosity, late toxicosis. Also there is a threat of an abortion or premature birth. Obesity — one of indicators to performance of Cesarean section at which development of complications in the form of big loss of blood, infections of an urinary and genital tract and the complicated postnatal rehabilitation is also possible. At excessive completeness there can be premature izlitiye of amniotic waters. At stout women the birth of large children with the body weight exceeding 4 kg is observed. For the child the excessive weight of mother also does not pass completely. The fruit has oxygen starvation and deficiency of nutrients, the risk of development of neurologic diseases including a convulsive syndrome, heart disease and other pathologies increases. Because of the considerable volume of fat during pregnancy diagnostics of a state and development of the kid becomes complicated.