! Eating extra for your baby is a myth. While it's important to gain enough weight piling on too much too quickly can increase your risk of pregnancy diabetes and high blood pressure.Most mums-to-be need just 200-300 extra calories a day in the final months

. 'This is because there's an increased risk to the baby of health problems, or even stillbirth.'Induction may also be offered if your baby is in distress or if you have a condition such as pre-eclampsia or gestational diabetes, or if your baby isn

Austell, Cornwall, mum to Joseph, 1½. SEE YOUR MIDWIFE ‘Go to all your antenatal appointments so your midwife can monitor your health and that of your baby. Regularly seeing your midwife means problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure or urinary tract

'd lost 2 and a half stone in weight, so my GP referred me to hospital. A urine test discovered the presence of ketones, and after ruling out diabetes, concluded I was dehydrated. I had to go on a saline/glucose drip on 2 separate occasions and was given

Tiredness is common in pregnancy. But it can be a symptom of something more serious, such as anaemia (a shortage of red blood cells), an underactive thyroid or gestational (pregnancy) diabetes. If you think you have any of these, see your GP

, if you smoke, have diabetes, suffer from hypertension or have severe anaemia. Small babies don't cope with a shortage of oxygen as well as normal-sized babies do, and this may influence doctors' decisions about how you give birth. After the birth, small

weight gain should be 2 to 3st. If it's twins, you're likely to gain 2¼ to 3st. But you don't need to start eating for two - gaining too much weight increases the risk of pregnancy diabetes and high blood pressure.Prima Baby says...Even though you might

cycles are monitored with an ultrasound performed between day 10 and day 12 of your menstrual cycle. This is an important method of checking your response to clomid. The other treatment that might be of benefit is Metformin. It is a diabetic drug