Professor Helen Skouteris, from Deakin’s School of Psychology and the Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development, said the study showed women who have already had one or more children are entering pregnancy at a significantly higher BMI than first time mums. “Each successive birth adds an average of one kilogram of postpartum body weight above what would normally be gained with age,” Professor Skouteris said. “This is most likely because they haven’t lost the weight from their previous pregnancy. “But we can see that it’s resulting in them having a greater chance of being in an unhealthy weight range during pregnancy, and then finding it even harder to get the weight off when the baby is born. “Women who gain excessive weight during pregnancy are more than three times as likely to retain weight post-partum compared to those who don’t. “It’s not rocket science but we still need to talk about it, there has to be greater awareness that pregnancy weight matters.” The research reviewed 17 studies that examined the pre-pregnancy BMI, gestational weight gain and post-partum weight gain for first time mums compared to women in their second or subsequent pregnancy
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