Weight loss or gain is a hot-button topic at any time, but you may be even more sensitive to talking about it – or hearing about it from strangers, repeatedly – while you're pregnant. Your individual ...

Weight gain is a dreaded topic for most women at any time—and pregnancy is no exception. With the recommended amount of weight gain during pregnancy changing so much throughout the years, it's easy ...

CHICAGO — Obese pregnant women who adhered to an intensive nutrition and exercise program in their first trimester gained less weight and had fewer pregnancy complications compared with their peers ...

PHOENIX — Women who gain either too much or too little weight during pregnancy may have a link to the weight of their baby, according to a new study. “Childhood obesity is on the rise, at the same ...

The 2009 National Academies report, Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines, concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support weight gain recommendations for women in higher ...

The truth is pregnancy causes some surprising long-term changes to your body, regardless of whether you’re a celebrity or a soccer mom. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing.  Dr. Shazia Malik, a ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

New research shows that women who halt GLP-1 medications near conception face greater gestational weight gain and elevated risks for preterm birth and pregnancy-related complications, raising urgent ...

Researchers have found in a new study that discontinuation of GLP-1 receptor agonists before or early in pregnancy was linked to greater gestational weight gain and higher risks of preterm ...