Obesity is a problem that affects 20% of pregnant women and that it can involve complications for both the health of the pregnant woman and that of her child. Specific programs such as the one that works at the Doctor Peset Hospital in Valencia have reduced these risks.
This Valencian public hospital has created an area specialized in the care of women with obesity who want to be mothers, where they offer preconception counseling and who continuously monitors the entire pregnancy and a plan for the preparation of childbirth.
Patients are given a daily diet and exercise guidelines and where they control possible complications they may suffer during pregnancy. In this way, weight gain is controlled during the months of pregnancy, something fundamental for the good health of the mother and the fetus.
The constancy is essential to maintain these healthy guidelines, and the fact that there are some professionals behind with continuous reviews favors that they are followed and the pregnancy goes well. There is no greater satisfaction for these future moms the fact that the discomfort is reduced and the baby grows properly.
Seasonal diabetes, hypertension problems or the high cesarean section are just some of the risks associated with maternal obesity, and that can also affect your children. Therefore it is a good initiative and I wish all obese patients could go to programs of this type.
If this follow-up is proven effective in reducing complications, would it not be logical that an effort be made to extend it to all hospitals and health centers?
Although I fear that in the context in which we find this hospital with a program that reduces complications in obese pregnant women It is an exceptional case ... At least I hope that every midwife or gynecologist will be aware of the importance of this issue and do what is possible so that the future mother is too and strives to maintain healthy habits.
