Ideal weight gain in pregnancy

Many pregnant women who experience excessive weight gain during pregnancy. Calculate the weight gain of pregnant women were ideal in the following way so that mothers and babies are healthier and easier dieting mothers after childbirth.

The increase in body weight of pregnant women whose ideal is different for everyone. The increase in weight should be monitored to avoid excessive or less than recommended.

The excessive increase may cause the baby is too large, making it difficult process of birth, and the mother will have difficulty in diet after giving birth. Conversely, if the weight gain is less, the baby can be born underweight are below 2.5 kg.

How to calculate the weight gain of pregnant women is based on the Body Mass Index (BMI). BMI can be calculated based on height and weight before pregnancy. Today many online calculators that can be used to calculate BMI, or based on the following table.

But if you want to count it manually, BMI formula is weight (in kilograms) divided by height squared (in meters).

Once you know how your BMI, use the guidance of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to determine the total weight gain of pregnant women were ideal:

BMI below 18.5

This figure shows you thin or skinny. Ideal weight gain during pregnancy is 12 to 18 kg.

A BMI between 18.5 to 24.9

This is the ideal BMI, weight gain is a good 11 to 16 kg. In the first trimester, weight gain, pregnant women should be 0.5 to 2.5 kg after it was followed by a weight gain of 0.5 kg per week.

A BMI between 25 and 29.9

This figure indicates overweight. Maternal weight gain should not be too much, ideally 7 to 11 kg
BMI above 30

This figure shows obese or very overweight. Ideal weight gain is from 5 to 9 kg.

For example, if a mother has a normal weight before pregnancy of 50 kg with a height of 1.6 meters, the BMI is 50 / (1.6 x 1.6) = 19.5, the total weight gain of pregnant women this ideal is 11 to 16 kg.

Achieving ideal hike

In general, pregnant women gain weight exceeds the ideal number, making it difficult to restore weight and ideal body shape after childbirth.

How does that weight gain is not excessive? Myth to eat twice as much during pregnancy is a myth that is not true. Eat twice as nutritious, not twice as much.

Eat in small amounts but more often. When you feel hungry in between the hours of the main meal, eat nutritious snacks eg yogurt, nuts, fruits.

Foods that are recommended are a combination of carbohydrate-containing foods, vegetables, fruits, protein dishes, and milk. If when breakfast, lunch and dinner menu you do not meet all these needs, paste less as a snack menu.

For example, the main meal menu was not enough vegetables, snacks you can be either a salad or steamed vegetables. If when breakfast you do not drink milk, the milk can be drunk as a snack or replaced with the yogurt. Side dishes can be replaced with a protein snack nuts.