{"id":3272,"date":"2016-10-14T11:44:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2016-10-14T11:44:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:44:25","slug":"quickstats-gestational-weight-gain-among-women-with-full-term-singleton-births-compared-with-recommendations-48-states-and-the-district-of-columbia-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2016\/10\/14\/3272\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Gestational Weight Gain Among Women with Full-Term, Singleton Births, Compared with Recommendations \u2014 48 States and the District of Columbia, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6540a10.htm?s_cid=mm6540a10_e\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/figures\/m6540qsf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gestational weight gain was within the recommended range for 32% of women giving birth to full-term, singleton infants in 2015, with 48% gaining more weight and 21% less weight than recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 44% of women who were underweight before pregnancy gained within the recommendations, compared with 39% of women who were normal weight, 26% of women who were overweight, and 24% of women with obesity before pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Weight gain above the recommendations was highest among women who were overweight (61%) or had obesity (55%) before pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6540a10.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6540a10.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gestational weight gain was within the recommended range for 32% of women giving birth to full-term, singleton infants in 2015, with 48% gaining more weight and 21% less weight than recommended. Approximately 44% of women who were underweight before pregnancy gained within the recommendations, compared with 39% of women who were normal weight, 26% of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,47317,53752,10566],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}