Ganho de peso gestacional e peso ao nascer

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to relate gestational nutritional status to birth weight and gestational intercurrences in puerperal patients attended at the Maternity of a Public Hospital. A retrospective study was carried out with 161 puerperal women from October 2016 to June 2017. Data were obtained through a structured questionnaire (maternal age, marital status, schooling, occupation, family income, number of births, date of birth of the last child) , collected directly from the mother. For statistical analysis, Chi-Square and t-student tests were used. The results will be presented as standard deviation. The significance level was set at p≤0.05. The average age of pregnant women was established in 27 years, and in the pre -gestational nutritional status, 53.4% were eutrophic; to 16.1% in the final weight. As for overweight, it jumped from 27.3% (in the pre -gestational period) to 32.2% (during gestation). Regarding gestational diseases, the most prevalent was hypertension (13.0%), followed by diabetes mellitus (3.7%). It was concluded that there was an increase in the frequency of overweight and obesity at the end of gestation; but no association of gestational nutritional status with birth weight and occurrence of gestational diseases was observed. However, it is worth emphasizing the importance of an efficient prenatal nutritional monitoring, which acts on the inadequacies of weight gain detected.