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Speaker 1: From House stuff Works dot Com. Hello, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Caroline and I'm Kristen. I feel like

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Speaker 1: Kristen when um, when women get pregnant. Uh, there are

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Speaker 1: We're focusing on pregnancy weight gain today, and I have

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Speaker 1: known several people who kind of used pregnancy as an

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Speaker 1: to the doctor and he told her that she could

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Speaker 1: after the baby was born. It's interesting how different people

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Speaker 1: not not everybody gains a lot of weight. I actually

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Speaker 1: have a girlfriend who initially lost weight when she first

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Speaker 1: out drinking just calories from alcohol, that's true, but you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean beers. Yeah. One thing to think about in

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Speaker 1: this baby. So if you're starting to eat ideally, if

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Speaker 1: possible that some people might lose weight right when they

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Speaker 1: not necessarily the right mindset for pregnancy, right. I was

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Speaker 1: really surprised by how few calorie, how a few extra

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Speaker 1: calories you have to eat you're pregnant. Well, before we

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Speaker 1: break down individually, the recommended calories per day in how

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Speaker 1: the weight that you gain during pregnancy is distributed. Let's

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Speaker 1: go over just on average, how much UM weight it's

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Speaker 1: recommended that pregnant women gain. Right The American Congress of

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Speaker 1: Obstetricians and Gynecologists says that underweight women should gain between

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Speaker 1: and this is calculated using pre pregnancy b m I

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Speaker 1: body mass index. By the way, normal weight women should

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Speaker 1: that range of recommended weights is relatively new, because in

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Speaker 1: the early twentieth century doctors were very strict with pregnant

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Speaker 1: And then in the nineteen sixties, the average weight gain

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Speaker 1: in the nineteen seventies, the recommended weight gain was then

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Speaker 1: It's not concerned about that, but legitimate concerns for maternal

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