Beware of obesity during pregnancy

Maintaining a healthy diet during your pregnancy will help prevent unhealthy weight gain. Photo: TNS

Obesity increases a pregnant women’s chances of gestational diabetes, hypertension, preeclampsia, long labour, labour interventions and miscarriage.

Before she got pregnant in 2014, Lizzy King, 28, of East Lansing, Michigan, gave herself a “lifestyle overhaul”. She started running and lost 23kg. She eschewed processed food and ate her first banana.