Plea for Help in the U.K.

This comment was left on a recent post on this blog .  It is a plea for help from a pregnant women in the U.K. I am only going to address on...

Fetal Over-testing in the Last Trimester Because of Fat?

This is a comment that was left on my blog recently, in the " Will I Feel My Baby Move If I'm Fat ?" post. It's a new twis...

"You and the Baby are About 85% Likely To Die on the Table"

The hype around the risks of pregnancy and obesity is so extreme at times that some doctors have developed an exaggerated fear of the possib...

Because Of Your Weight, We'll Schedule Your Cesarean

Still find it hard to believe that fat women are being denied access to low-intervention care and are often railroaded into cesareans these ...

Anesthesia and Wound Complications in Cesareans in "Morbidly Obese" Women

This month is Cesarean Awareness Month .  We are continuing our month-long focus on the overutilization of cesareans in the USA as a whole, ...

Too Out Of Shape For Birth?

Here's another little gem from the blog, My OB Said What ?.  It covers the common misperception among obstetric caregivers that fat wom...

You will probably just die anyway

The things some doctors tell women of size about pregnancy are just appalling.  Scaring fat women about dying in pregnancy seems to be the l...

Will I Feel My Baby Move If I'm Fat?

Whether or not a fat pregnant woman will feel her baby move is one of those myths about fat women and pregnancy that you hear periodically. ...