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		<title>Myths and Truths of Obesity and Pregnancy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link Ironically, despite excessive caloric intake, many obese women are deficient in vitamins vital to a healthy pregnancy &#8230; &#8230; Many obese women are vitamin deficient &#8230; Forty percent are deficient in iron, 24 percent in folic acid and 4 percent in B12. This is a concern because certain vitamins, like folic acid, are very important before conception, lowering the risk of cardiac problems and spinal defects in newborns. Other vitamins, such as calcium and iron, are needed throughout pregnancy to help babies grow. &#8230; vitamin deficiency has to do with the quality of the diet, not the quantity. Obese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby&#8217;s Weight Affected By Mothers&#8217; Weight Before And During Pregnancy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link A new study &#8230; reveals that both pre-pregnant weight (body mass index, BMI) and weight gain in pregnancy are important predictors of babies&#8217; birthweight. This is important since high birthweight may also predict adult overweight. &#8230; Results of the study showed that birthweight of the newborn child increased with increasing maternal pre-pregnant BMI, and that offspring birthweight also increased with increasing weight gain of the mother during pregnancy. Every increase in one kg of pre-pregnancy BMI increased birthweight with 22.4 g. A subsequent increase in weight gain during pregnancy of 10 kg increased birthweight with 224 g. &#8230; &#8220;Encouraging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity epidemic may have roots in 1950s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link After long days discussing America&#8217;s obesity problem, Melinda Sothern has had enough of windowless conference rooms. &#8230; Sothern, 55, is a woman who practices what she preaches. And one of her messages about obesity is aimed at women like herself: mothers. Fat mothers. Thin mothers. And especially mothers-to-be. A leading fitness and nutrition expert &#8230;, she has a theory that the tide of obesity that has swept the nation in the last two decades had its roots in what young mothers did, or didn&#8217;t do, in the postwar, suburban-sprouting 1950s. If she&#8217;s right — and evidence is stacking up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity in pregnancy hinders women&#8217;s ability to fight infection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 18:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit my website to explore home birth, hospital birth and Medicare-funded private midwifery care. Link &#8230; Pregnant women who are obese are less able to fight infections than lean women, which could affect their baby&#8217;s health after birth and later in life &#8230; &#8220;Women who are obese before pregnancy have critical differences in their immune function during pregnancy compared to normal weight women &#8230; Obesity in pregnancy has been associated with an increase in infections such as chorioamnionitis &#8230; &#8230; obese women had fewer CD8+ (cytotoxic T) cells and natural killer cells, which help fight infection, compared to lean women. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exercise may solve diabetes dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 18:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit my website to explore home birth, hospital birth and Medicare-funded private midwifery care. Link Pregnant women will be asked to get on their bikes as part of a major WA study. The Cycle Study, involving at least 200 women with a history of gestational diabetes, aims to prevent a recurrence and reduce the chances of obesity and diabetes in offspring. &#8230; Gestational diabetes, which is glucose intolerance that first occurs during pregnancy, affects up to 8.8 per cent of pregnant women. &#8230; the increased health risks for the child following a pregnancy complicated by poorly controlled gestational diabetes represented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big mums risk babies&#8217; health</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or Medicare-funded private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Pregnant women are packing on too many kilograms, risking their health and that of their babies &#8211; and costing the health system a fortune. A staggering 41.5 per cent of the 7735 women who gave birth at Auckland&#8217;s National Women&#8217;s Hospital in 2009 were classed as overweight or obese. Those with a body mass index (BMI) of more than 25 were considered overweight, while those who exceeded 30 were said to be obese. &#8230; national and international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obese Women Have Longer Gestation Period</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or Medicare-funded private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link According to a recent study, overweight women have a higher chance of having a longer gestation period. The study also says that obese women are more likely to have induced labour and also a caesarean section. &#8230; one in three women were pregnant even after 10 days of due date as compared to their healthy counterparts. &#8230; more than one third of obese women had to undergo an induced labour as compared to one fourth of women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands Of Gestational Diabetes Cases Go Undetected, Study Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or Medicare-funded private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link About one-third of pregnant women in the U.S. are not screened for gestational diabetes &#8230; Women with gestational diabetes are more likely than other pregnant women to develop pre-eclampsia &#8230; Gestational diabetes also increases the likelihood of premature birth and birth defects. The study &#8230; found that 19% of women diagnosed with gestational diabetes did not receive recommended screenings for regular diabetes six months after giving birth &#8230; [As] many as 50% of women with gestational diabetes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diabetes helps explain obesity-birth defect link</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link &#8230; While some research has suggested that obese women have an increased risk of having a baby with a birth defect, a new study shows that diabetes may at least partly account for the link. Studies on whether obesity raises the odds of birth anomalies such as spina bifida, cleft palate and heart defects have so far come to conflicting conclusions. One question is whether obesity, per se, is the problem &#8212; or whether certain factors associated with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exercise in Pregnancy May Normalize Infant Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Regular exercise during the later stages of pregnancy may lower infants&#8217; birth weight into a potentially healthier range without negative effects on glucose metabolism &#8230; The normal reduction in maternal insulin sensitivity that occurs in pregnancy to provide the fetus with nutrients for growth appeared unaffected &#8230; These findings &#8230; &#8220;could be viewed as a normalization, rather than reduction, of nutrient supply given that our control offspring displayed newborn size parameters consistently above the mean for our reference [...]]]></description>
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