I say ‘new’. The CMACE/RCOG advice on folic acid actually came out in 2010, but I can’t be the only one who knew nothing about it? Basically, the RCOG has suggested that obese women should take 5mg doses of folic acid daily instead of the 400μg advised for ‘normal’ weight women, because obese women have
Folic Acid – did you know the ‘new’ guidance for obese women? Read More »
If anything convinces me I’m doing the right thing by spending what ridiculously little spare time I have working on getting this website up and running, this is it: Please please please, can someone help me. I am 10 weeks pregnant and currently have a BMI of 35. Firstly, I have suffered with severe sickness
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“I used to eat ten packets of crisps a day and have a takeaway for dinner every night. I just couldn’t be bothered cooking so we either went out for dinner or ordered in.” I swear this sort of thing is why bigger women get treated so badly in maternity services. Are we all like
We don’t all eat takeaway every night! Read More »
So, another article warning that what we eat in pregnancy can scar our children for years to come… Eating the wrong type of fat during pregnancy ‘increases likelihood of having overweight children’ | Mail Online. Or is it? What does it really tell us? That diet in pregnancy was to blame, or that the mother’s
