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Being overweight or obese increases the chances that a woman delivering a baby extra-large, and that excess weight significantly increases the risk for preeclampsia, a potentially fatal complication of pregnancy, according to specialists from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Women have more difficulties in the delivery of babies when they are very large, while infants are also at risk of injury during birth, including shoulder dislocation.

While women who are overweight or obese are known to have a higher risk of having very large babies and experience other pregnancy complications has been difficult to separate the effects of maternal weight, the gestational diabetes.

This led to investigate whether body mass index (BMI), or standard measure of weight relative to height, which is used to measure the weight of a person who could influence the risk of pregnancy, fetal health and newborn health, regardless of blood sugar levels of the mother.
Recent studies have shown that dietary changes can effectively treat gestational diabetes by more than 90 percent of women with the condition.

An American study shows the possible link between depression may suffer the mother and the sleeping patterns of your future baby during its early years. Apparently, these problems affect children by altering the pattern of sleep and trouble falling creándoles.

It seems that there is a relationship between hormones suffer resulting from stress, anxiety, etc.., With the development of unborn baby’s brain, in theory these hormones that are blamed for some babies have more problems than others to sleep properly. Read the rest of this entry »