Washington: A new study found out that labour can be longer for obese pregnant women, which becomes yet another reason for women to not pile pounds while pregnant.
The study, by a Erin Brousseau, M D, an obstetrics, gynecology and women's health resident at Saint Louis University at Saint Louis University, found that not only do obese women also needed more medication-a dinoprostone vaginal insert-to activate labour, but that it also takes them longer to deliver their babies than women of normal body weight.
The study was based on the data collected from a total of 195 patients.
The study showed the need for doctors to tell obese women that electing to have labour induced can place them at higher risk of longer labour, and that it could increase the possibility that they will need a cesarean section.
In addition, doctors may want to wait for labour to begin spontaneously rather than choosing to induce labour early in obese women, given these risks.
The research was presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in May 6.
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