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BMI
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Women who are overweight or obese
have less chance of getting pregnant .
The body mass index
(BMI) or Quetelet index
FERTILITY TIPS
The basis of the BMI was
devised by Adolphe
Quetelet, a Belgian
astronomer,
mathematician,
statistician and sociologist,
from 1830 to 1850
WE CARE FOR YOUR BABY
FEMELIFE
"Don't Try To be Very Thin"
Check your BMI
BMI- Should be between 18.5 - 24.9
"Being underweight
is just as bad for fertility as being
overweight."
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The risk of pre-eclampsia doubles in
overweight women and triples in obese
women.
Overweight women have twice the risk
of gestational (pregnancy-related)
diabetes and obese women eight times
the risk, compared with women of
healthy weight.
A woman who is obese is more than
twice as likely to have a miscarriage as
a woman of healthy weight.
There is twice the risk that her baby
will not survive.
Infants born to obese women are more
likely to be large for their age, need
neonatal intensive care or have a
congenital abnormality.