Competing priorities: a qualitative study of how women make and enact decisions about weight gain in pregnancy

• Main Authors: Meredith Vanstone (Author), Marina Sadik (Author), Sherry Van Blyderveen (Author), Anne Biringer (Author), Wendy Sword (Author), Louis Schmidt (Author), Sarah D. Mcdonald (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Despite ample clinical evidence that gaining excess weight in pregnancy results in negative health outcomes for women and infants, more than half of women in Western industrialized nations gain in excess of national guidelines. The influence of socio-demographic factors and weigh...