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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My wife is pregnant with our first child and I’m starting to become concerned with her eating habits and weight gain. She used to be overweight ( about 50lbs) due to a medical issues and lost that weight before we met. She has worked hard with eating healthy and working out to make sure she doesn’t regain that weight. She know [b]she needs to gain 25-30lbs [/b]and she is not on track at all. We eat healthy most of the time with 1-2 meals of take out or something less healthy. She has been eating less calories than I think she should be eating and fights her cravings. There have been many times that she had wanted something and said she can’t eat it because it’s “ too unhealthy”. She isn’t at risk or anything but I do worry she is not eating enough and the risk of her potentially passing down these food habits to our child worries me. How can I be supportive while trying to get her help? [/quote]
Unless she is severely underweight, she does not [b]need [/b]to gain 25-30lbs.[/quote]
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Both times I was pregnant, starting at a healthy weight, I was told 25-35 lbs was best for weight gain. It’s more if you start under weight. [/quote]
It’s not a “need”. It’s a recommendation so that women don’t gain excessive amounts leading to GD. 25-35lbs isn’t needed to have a healthy pregnancy and baby or all the women who gain much less wouldn’t carry to term or we’d have lot of children with significant health issues. [/quote]

I gained exactly 30 lbs with each pregnancy (not overweight). And developed GD both times. My OB said it was primarily genetic, triggered by the fetus.[/quote]

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