Obesity cuts the chances of IVF treatment working
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… obesity cuts the chance of IVF working and increases the risk of premature birth and stillbirth.
… [the] impact becomes more profound as weight increases …
… being overweight and obese affects natural conception too and has a profound impact on a woman and her baby’s health throughout pregnancy and beyond.
… the most obese women … had 35% less chance of falling pregnant and a 59% increased chance of giving birth to a very premature baby …
… “The take-home message … is that women need to reduce their weight before trying fertility treatment.
… “Obesity is a state of inflammation and … It is not conducive to conception and … pregnancy.”
… 32% of women over 16 are overweight … and 21% … are obese …
… being overweight increases the risk of diabetes during and after pregnancy, pre-eclampsia and developing a potentially lethal DVT.
… the chances of recognising foetal abnormalities decrease in overweight and obese women because the quality of ultrasound images falls.
… “Just … losing 5% of their body weight may be enough to restore ovulation in women who are overweight.”
… “Women need to understand that obesity cannot only affect themselves – it can affect their child. If the mother is obese, their child is three times more likely to be obese; and if the father is obese too the child is eight times more likely to be obese.”
Melissa Maimann, Essential Birth Consulting 0400 418 448
