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Pregnancy weight gain: what is “normal"? The numbers NICE doesn’t quite give us…

Red Whale Season 4 Episode 14

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Haven’t got time for CPD? Think again! In this super short special listener question episode, Nik and Fi respond to one of our listeners, Emma from Sheffield. She asks a deceptively tricky question: what actually counts as “normal” weight gain in pregnancy? With NICE not giving a neat definition of excessive gestational weight gain, they dig a bit deeper for answers…

Press play for a clear, mini-episode which gives the answer to a question many of us have probably wondered about — and a useful reminder that conversations about weight in pregnancy need both clinical confidence and careful language.


Useful Links

The Association of UK Dieticians: Pregnancy and diet


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