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Celebrities In Trouble For Shedding Baby Fat Too Quick

Celebrities have been criticized for losing baby weight too quickly and starting a new trend with new mothers.

Experts have warned that too much weight loss after giving birth could impact breastfeeding.

The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), also stressed that weight gain during pregnancy was important to nourish the growing baby.

The Institute’s Director, Professor Peter Sawicki, said: “Often, the extra effort women have to make to look after a new baby and breastfeed after giving birth means the kilos just melt away without effort,”

“But for about half of all women, the weight will not go away as quickly,”

Other studies have shown that if women become overweight during pregnancy, they will have higher chances of weight problems if they have not returned to a normal weight within a year of having a baby.

“It is not a good idea to ‘eat for two’ in pregnancy and forget about your weight until after the baby is born if you are at all overweight or prone to overweight already.

“Women need to eat well enough for themselves and their baby, but pregnancy is not a time to overeat,” ,” said Professor Sawicki.

Evidence shows that a balance diet, with or without extra exercise, will help new mothers regain control of their weight.

         

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Twins Taken Into Care After Mother Jokes They Have Ruined Her Body

A mother was left angry after her twin babies were taken into care by social workers.

The 36-year-old woman had joked that her body had been ruined after having a caesarean delivery.

She and her husband had spent over £38,000 on IVF treatment, and became pregnant after five rounds of treatment. The twins, a boy and girl, were delivered in December six weeks early. The couple, from Essex, are named as Mr and Mrs N to protect the identity of their family.

Social workers took the babies into care within weeks after hospital staff commented that the couple were struggling to look after them.

Nurses told social workers that the mother seemed to have resentments towards the children, and had joked about the effects of the birth on her body.

When the children were taken into care, the mother lost her temper, and officials have commented that she has ‘anger problems’ which could put her twins in danger.

After a secret Family Court hearing last week - warned the first time parents that their six-month-old boy and girl could be put up for adoption. The couple are currently only allowed ten hours of supervised contact with their son and daughter per week. Mrs N has been told she will not be able to have any further children due to medical reasons.

There has been concern that social workers are now becoming over strict after the death of Baby Peter in North London.

Mrs N said: ‘Social services should step in where there’s violence or abuse but we would never hurt our children.’

         

Probiotics Found To Get Rid Of ‘Flabby Tums’ After Pregnancy

Probiotics have been found to help get rid of ‘baby bellies’ after pregnancy. The new research from the University of Turku in Finland was released at the 17th European Congress on Obesity in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The study followed 256 pregnant women to find out more about weight gain during and after pregnancy.

All of the women, who were in their first trimester of pregnancy, were divided into three groups for the study. Two of the groups received dietary counseling on which food they should eat for a healthy weight gain and for optimum development of their unborn child. They were provided with foods high in monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids, and fiber-enriched foods such as pasta and cereals.

One of the group, in addition to this support, were supplied with probiotic capsules containing lactobacillus and bifidobacterium. Probiotics have become popular over the last decade with their ability to improve digestion. They contain “friendly” bacteria which improves the health of the gut. The second group was provided with ‘dummy’ capsules.

The final group received ‘dummy’ capsules and no dietary counseling.

Researchers weighed the women at the start of the study, and again one year after they had given birth. Waist circumference and skin fold thickness were also recorded.

From the data collected, 25 percent of the women who had been adviced on what food to eat and given probiotics had a body mass index of 30 or more, and defined as centrally obese.

The group which was not provided with probiotics, 43 percent of the women were described to have central obesity.

For the third group which did not take probiotics or receive dietary advice, 40 percent had central obesity.

Central obesity, when combined with more fat around the belly, is considered to be particularly unhealthy.
The study also showed that there was a lower average in body fat percentage in the group which took probiotics.

Nutritionalist Kirsi Laitinen said “The women who got the probiotics fared best,”

“One year after childbirth, they had the lowest levels of central obesity as well as the lowest body fat percentage.”

Laitinen said that more research is needed to learn more about the effects of taking a probiotic to reduce a ‘flabby tum’ and on the health of the children.