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[Design of a weight gain chart for pregnant women]
1Departamento de Salud Pública, Santiago, Chile.
Background:
A low weight for height of pregnant women at the start of pregnancy and a low weight gain during pregnancy has a negative impact of fetal growth.
Aim:
To report the design of a weight gain chart for pregnant women that allows to classify mothers according to their nutritional status and to monitor weight gain during gestation.
Material And Methods:
Data from 1745 Chilean mothers who delivered their newborns in 1983 and 1984 were used to build this chart.
Results:
The instrument could diagnose, from gestational week 10 onwards, mothers at risk of delivering babies with birth weight under 3000 g and set weight gain goals for each individual mother based on her nutritional status. Similarly, mothers at risk of delivering babies with birth weight over 3999 g could be early diagnosed during pregnancy and guided to have a prudent weight gain.
Conclusions:
The chart can be easily used in prenatal clinics of developing countries and is currently applied in several Latin American countries.
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