Miscarrying women can try to get pregnant again sooner
A new report by researchers at University of Aberdeen in Scotland suggests that it may be better to try to concieve again after having a miscarriage sooner than later. The study found that women conceiving within six months of a miscarriage have better chances of a successful and complication-free second pregnancy than women who conceive later. The report is contradictory to an earlier report based on World Health Organization's 2005 recommendation that women delay pregnancy for 6 months after miscarrying.
From a TIME magazine reporting on the study
Since then, however, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for more studies on conception after miscarriage, and the new Scottish study is the first attempt to provide better data on optimal timing for women. Dr. Sohinee Bhattacharya, an obstetrician at University of Aberdeen, led an analysis of more than 30,000 Scottish women in the national health registry who had lost their first pregnancy but were able to conceive a second time. In line with the WHO's advice, she found that a larger proportion of women (59%) conceived six months or more after miscarriage, compared with 41% who became pregnant within six months.
This is excellent news. After suffering a miscarriage myself, we were devastated so I can empathize with those who may feel the need to try to get pregnant again after suffering the loss. Read MORE HERE.
Women who Overeat, may have more obese babies
Another study found that women who gained too much weight during pregnancy are more likely to have bigger babie, which also puts their children at risk of becoming heavy later on.
It was a pretty comprehensive longitudal study too that revealed these results. The researchers followed all Michigan and New Jersey births between 1989 and 2003 with more than one child, to exclude the possibility of genetic predisposition. In the study, more than 513,000 women and 1.1 million infants were studied.
They found that women who gained more than 53 pounds during their pregnancy made babies who were 150 grams (0.3 pounds) heavier at birth than women who only gained 22 pounds. In the United States, more than one-third of women of normal weight and more than half of overweight and obese women gain more than the weight recommended by the doctors. The Institute of Medicine recommends that normal weight women should gain 25 to 35 pounds during pregnancy, and overweight and obese women should gain 11 to 25 pounds.
Whoa! Talk about putting pressure on!
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