I was reading 'Pregnancy' by Gordon Bourne (The Pregnancy Bible 600,000 copies sold, or so it says on the front) and came across these two gems:
"Here is a guarantee: if you are normal weight before your pregnancy, and use no special support, don't wear one during pregnancy, don't gain more than 10kg, don't have twins or extra amniotic fluid - then 3 months after delivery your abdomen will be as good as it ever was. No marks, just as flat, just as strong and just as nice in any bikini"
"It used to be said that every woman was allowed to gain 6.4kg per baby. What a tragic comment. Any woman who has gained an excessive amount of weight in pregnancy and who finds herslef to be overweight after delivery and the puerperium should go on a reducing diet as soon as possible so that she returns to her original weight, regardless of whether she is breast-feeding or not"
"... at total weight gain of 9-12kg is all that should be allowed throughout pregnancy"
Now am I being oversensitive or is there something very wrong about what this Doctor is writing, especially if it really is the best selling pregnancy book.
To mears and leese, is this a healthy set of attitudes towards pregnant women? Is this really how Obstetricians think?
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Stupid things I have read.
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pie · 19/06/2003 01:59
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