If you begin at a healthy weight, your aim is to gain 1 to 4 pounds (0.5 to 1.8 kilograms) in the initial months of pregnancy. There's no need for extra calories, just a nutritious diet.

throughout pregnancy. The authors found that pregnant people with excessive weight gain—defined as more than 2 kilograms (about 4.4 pounds) in the first trimester—had fetuses with larger ...

A woman who is normal body weight, or normal body mass index should gain anywhere between 25 pounds, 15 to 25 pounds during the whole pregnancy. Those are the recommendations from the Institute of ...

In my early 20s, I lost a lot of weight — about 70 pounds. As the pounds started ... I'd gained As weeks passed in my pregnancy, I quickly began to gain weight. It became clear that my pregnancy ...

The reality is you need only 100 extra calories ... at a higher rate than normal. Weight gain should be gradual throughout your pregnancy. Shoot for two to four pounds during the first trimester ...