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Weight gain during pregnancy

The weight of pregnancy does not come as the baby or your cravings. They are distributed in your body to accommodate baby. And over the months.

Ideal weight gain?

The number of pounds to take during pregnancy is not the same for all women. There is no ideal weight. However, there are many weight ranges. They depend on your body type and exactly your BMI (body mass index), calculated according to your height for weight.

Pregnancy Weight

Pregnancy Weight

Thus, experts suggest making:
- 13 to 18 kg for lean women;
- 11 to 16 kg for women of normal weight;
- 7 to 11 kg for overweight women;
- 16 to 20kg for twin pregnancies.

Not only the baby

Taking pounds is not only related to the baby. Neither the fact that you eat more. But to prepare your body for childbirth.

The weight depends on each woman. But the distribution of pounds is always more or less identical.

For example, you take 13 kg, your weight is distributed as follows:
- 3.5 kg (35%) for the baby;
- 500 g placenta
- 1 kg in the amniotic fluid;
- 1 kg in the uterus;
- 1 kg for blood;
- 500 g to 1 kg per breast;
- 2 kg to 2.5 kg of stored fat;
- 2 kg for the liquid in the tissues.

Kilos targeted at weight gain

The capture of pounds spread over months. In general, the rate of 2 to 7 kilos in the first half of pregnancy and 500 g / month until the end.

The first two months, weight gain is almost zero and generally passes unnoticed. Especially if you’re prone to nausea and therefore little appetite. The weight gain really begins during the 2nd quarter. It is at this point that your body makes reservations for breastfeeding.

Finally, you will certainly carry more weight in late pregnancy. For the baby grows so much.

Some women are also water retention in late pregnancy. This may be difficult to live as water retention gives a swollen and puffy. Rest assured, however, then those pounds are lost more easily than others.
Insufficient or overweight

You have understood, the weight gain is different for every woman (and each pregnancy). However, be careful and consult your doctor or midwife if:

- You lose or gain weight without explanation;
- Your weight is below the minimum recommended depending on your BMI;
- Conversely, you pass freely.

Know that in the case of underweight, your baby may be born with growth retardation. And you risk complications in late pregnancy (hypertension, phlebitis, etc..) If overweight.

Note: Also note that rapid weight gain and may evoke excessive gestational diabetes. This requires special supervision.

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Advantages of Pregnancy Between 20 and 30

It is now common knowledge that in terms of form and fitness of the body, it is better to have children at a younger age, because when you have already more years, have a greater chance of having problem pregnancies and children have problems of some kind.
And if you’re in your twenties and your thirty years, then you have some advantages over older women at the time of pregnancy.

If you have that age you will be much easier to carry the pregnancy for a woman of an older age, besides having lower risk of developing health complications such as gestational diabetes and high blood pressure. Also, you’re less likely to have premature and underweight, compared with women who have them after age 35.

Once you have your baby, if you are between these ages will have much more strength to face various situations within the first months of your baby, such as getting up several times during the night and still have the strength to get up as usual the following day, plus you’ll have many women your age accompanying you on those experiences, because it says that the average age when the first baby have women in Western countries is 25 years.

Plus you have those advantages, you have other ways of thinking, as you have greater flexibility to combine your role as mother to the wife, something your husband would appreciate a good way. Even a good percentage of couples who are in that age group are less likely to have marital problems caused by pregnancy or childbirth.

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