Nine maternal risks of Obesity and Three fetal risks of maternal obesity

 

Mother

1.   Severe morbidity – surgical or aneshtetic

2.   Cardiac disease

3.   Spontaneous miscarriage

4.   Pre-eclampsia

5.   Gestational diabetes

6.   Thromboembolism

7.   Post caesarean wound infection

8.   Infection from other causes

9.   Post partum haemorrhage

Baby

1.   Stillbirth and neonatal death

2.   Congenital abnormalities (can be missed by scan)

3.   Prematurity