Moms who lose the weight still birth heavier babies

It takes a tremendous amount of strength to changes your life and take off that extra weight you've been carrying around. But according to this study, losing weight won't lessen your chances of giving birth to an overweight baby. It's been known for a while that obese women typically give birth to larger babies, and larger-than-normal babies are at a high risk of experiencing birth trauma.

The study showed, basically, that on average, larger women give birth to larger babies, while women who have been a normal weight most of their lives gave birth to normal-sized babies. However, women who were previously overweight but had lost the weight prior to pregnancy still gave birth to larger babies.

So it seems what the evidence is telling us is that the long-term effects of being overweight can last after the weight's gone. So while slimming down is definitely a step in the right direction, the ideal solution would be to not put on extra weight in the first place.