When a pregnant woman feels sorry for herself and wants a chocolate fudge sundae, she should have it, says Dr. Arthur G. King of Cincinnati. In the current American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. King challenges the prevailing fashion among obstetricians of warning patients to keep their weight gains below an arbitrary 25 pounds.
Limiting weight, says Dr. King, is urged "with sweeping but poorly documented claims" that it lessens the dangers of miscarriage, stillbirths and malformations. This argument, he reports, can cause hysterical fear in some impressionable women.
Dr. King contends...
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