Unravelling pregnancy weight-gain myths

Jodie Dodd
Obstetrician and maternal fetal medicine specialist

Worldwide, significant effort is put into helping women, and their babies, avoid the presumed ongoing health risks of excessive weight gain during pregnancy. But are those efforts focused in the right directions?

Jodie’s research has shown that the answer is no—and she’s on a mission to identify what’s really going on.

“Many long-held assumptions about excessive weight gain causing pregnancy complications are incorrect,” says Jodie Dodd.

“The women themselves are often unfairly made to feel responsible for it. But it’s much more likely that a complex array of biological and ecological mechanisms are at play.”