When pregnant women are obese during pregnancy, the body will secrete more insulin to maintain the metabolism and storage of sugar, fat and protein in obese women. Such changes may lead to gestational diabetes in pregnant women who did not have diabetes in the past, and may also aggravate the mother who was originally a diabetic.
Many scientific studies show that high blood sugar will make embryos develop abnormally or even die, and it will also increase the probability of miscarriage. Moreover, gestational diabetes will cause some infections or uric acid poisoning of our pregnant mothers, which will bring many complications to our baby after birth.
2. Pregnancy induced hypertension
If expectant mothers gain too much weight during pregnancy and have mild dizziness or headache, they should check their blood pressure quickly.
It is understood that about 1/4 women with pregnancy-induced hypertension will have pre-eclampsia during pregnancy or childbirth, or shortly after giving birth to a baby. The probability of preeclampsia in women with pregnancy-induced hypertension within 30 weeks of pregnancy is 50%.
Pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome has a great influence on pregnant women and fetuses, and the risk of pregnancy complications such as intrauterine growth restriction, premature delivery, placental abruption and intrauterine stillbirth is high.
3. Giant baby
Too much nutrition absorbed by pregnant mothers will make the fetus grow too fast and increase the chance of becoming a giant baby (more than 4000 grams). Macrosomia is harmful to both pregnant women and fetuses.
Women who give birth to huge babies are prone to tearing of the birth canal and massive bleeding, and even if cesarean section is performed, it is easy to cause wound infection, abdominal adhesion and endometriosis. And the baby is too big.
It is easy to get stuck in the pelvis and cause bone injury or even suffocation. Infants are prone to hypoglycemia, polycythemia and hyperbilirubinemia after birth. The proportion of congenital heart disease, anencephaly and other malformations is higher than that of normal weight infants, and the probability of obesity, diabetes and hypertension is greater when they grow up.