Weight gain during pregnancy : reexamining the guidelines / Kathleen M. Rasmussen and Ann L. Yaktine, editors ; Committee to Reexamine IOM Pregnancy Weight Guidelines, Food and Nutrition Board and Board on Children, Youth, and Families.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Reexamine IOM Pregnancy Weight Guidelines.

Rasmussen, Kathleen M., editor.

Yaktine, Ann L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pregnant women--Weight gain.

Pregnant women.

Weight gain.

Prenatal care.

Pregnancy.

Weight Gain.

Prenatal Care.

Practice Guidelines as Topic.

Pregnancy Complications--prevention & control.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Weight Gain.

Prenatal Care.

Pregnancy.

Practice Guidelines as Topic.

Pregnancy Complications--prevention & control.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"As women of childbearing age have become heavier, the trade-off between maternal and child health created by variation in gestational weight gain has become more difficult to reconcile. Weight Gain During Pregnancy responds to the need for a reexamination of the 1990 Institute of Medicine guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy. It builds on the conceptual framework that underscored the 1990 weight gain guidelines and addresses the need to update them through a comprehensive review of the literature and independent analyses of existing databases. The book explores relationships between weight gain during pregnancy and a variety of factors (e.g., the mother's weight and height before pregnancy) and places this in the context of the health of the infant and the mother, presenting specific, updated target ranges for weight gain during pregnancy and guidelines for proper measurement. New features of this book include a specific range of recommended gain for obese women. Weight Gain During Pregnancy is intended to assist practitioners who care for women of childbearing age, policy makers, educators, researchers, and the pregnant women themselves to understand the role of gestational weight gain and to provide them with the tools needed to promote optimal pregnancy outcomes."--Back cover.

Contents:

Setting the stage for revising pregnancy weight guidelines : conceptual framework

Descriptive epidemiology and trends

Composition and components of gestational weight gain : physiology and metabolism

Determinants of gestational weight gain

Consequences of gestational weight gain for the mother

Consequences of gestational weight gain for the child

Determining optimal weight gain

Approaches to achieving recommended gestational weight gain

Open session and workshop agendas

Committee member biographical sketches.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780309149150

0309149150

9780309131148

0309131146