Obesity During Pregnancy in Clinical Practice

This book summarizes the effects of overweight/obesity in the childbearing years that can be effectively communicated to patients by their providers in a busy practice setting, and provides concise and understandable summaries of the evidence-based, theory-driven lifestyle interventions that have been shown to be effective for weight loss and modifying the risk of developing diabetes and obesity.

List of contents

Section I. Introduction.- 1. Introduction: Breaking the Cycle of Obesity in Mothers and Children.- 2. Obesity and infertility.- 3. Preconception and Pregnancy Care in Overweight or Obese Women.- 4. hared Decision-Making and Labor Management in Parturients.- Section II. Translating the Metabolism of Pregnancy.- 5. Epidemiologic Trends and Maternal Factors Predicting Postpartum Weight.- 6. Relationship between depressive mood and maternal obesity- implications for postpartum depression.- 7. Body Image as a Contributor to Weight in Pregnancy and Postpartum.- Section III. The Event.- 8. Promoting a Healthy Weight After Delivery.- 9. Obesity and Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Postpartum: Evidence, Guidelines, and Recommendations.- 10. Maternal obesity, gestational weight gain, and childhood growth in the first year of life.- Section IV. Meeting the Challenges.- 11. ernal Obesity and Implications for the Long-term Health of the Offspring.- 12. Family- centered interventions to reduce maternal and child obesity.- 13. Obesity Screening Recommendations and Emerging Policies.

Summary

This book summarizes the effects of overweight/obesity in the childbearing years that can be effectively communicated to patients by their providers in a busy practice setting, and provides concise and understandable summaries of the evidence-based, theory-driven lifestyle interventions that have been shown to be effective for weight loss and modifying the risk of developing diabetes and obesity.

Product details

• Authors: Kesha Baptiste-Roberts, Wanda Nicholson
• Assisted by: Baptiste-Roberts (Editor), Baptiste-Roberts (Editor), Kesha Baptiste-Roberts (Editor), Wand Nicholson (Editor), Wanda Nicholson (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2012
• EAN: 9781447128304
• ISBN: 978-1-4471-2830-4
• No. of pages: 356
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 204 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 447 g
• Illustrations: XV, 356 p. 18 illus., 6 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; B, Medicine, INTERNAL MEDICINE, Personal & public health, Obstetrics, Gynaecology & obstetrics, Midwifery, Health Sciences, Medicine/Public Health, general, Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery, Clinical & internal medicine, Maternal and child health services, Maternal and Child Health, Materno-fetal medicine, Diabetes;Obesity;Pregnancy