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Overweight Could Be Risky During Second Pregnancy

New research shows- After first pregnancy women who gains weight has a great risk of increasing problems during her second pregnancy.

The huge study proffers some of the greatest confirmation yet proved a long suspected, direct link between maternal overweight and obesity and pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes and stillbirth.

Researcher Eduardo Villamor, MD, of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston says, "Both obesity and these pregnancy complications could have similar causes, so we have not known if it was actually the weight that was really responsible for the pregnancy risk,"

But, "it turns out that women do not need to become overweight or obese in order to increase their chances of having poor gestational outcomes; only a relatively modest increase in weight between pregnancies could lead to serious illness," Villamor says. Villamor is an assistant professor of international nutrition at Harvard.