Promoting healthy weight gain during pregnancy and supporting moms to eat healthy and be active can greatly impact both the health of the mother and the child.

Healthy Children and Families created the Healthy Pregnancy Weight Gain project to support expectant mothers by giving them the resources and education they need for a healthy pregnancy.

Another goal of this project is to support healthcare providers with resources and tools to assist expectant mothers with healthy eating, physical activity and knowledge and awareness of the gestational weight gain guidelines.

Resources

General Information

• Healthy Pregnancy Weight Gain - Information handout
• Pregnancy weight gain graphs for singleton pregnancies:
  • Underweight or healthy weight - pre-pregnancy BMI
  • Overweight or obese weight - pre-pregnancy BMI
• Nutrition Guideline
  • Pregnancy
  • Multiples Pregnancy
• Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology Get Active Questionnaire for Pregnancy.

Learning Modules

• A continuing medical education learning program on healthy pregnancy weight gain is available for free to all healthcare providers in Alberta. The program meets the accreditation requirements of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (1.5 Mainpro+ and 1.5 MOC Section 3).

Reports

• Healthy Pregnancy Weight Gain Continuing Medical Education Module Evaluation Results
• Healthy Pregnancy Weight Gain Final Evaluation Report
• Healthy Pregnancy Weight Gain Final Evaluation Report (Executive Summary)

Publications

• Digital marketing to promote healthy weight gain among pregnant women in Alberta: an implementation study was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (2019)
• Women’s perceptions of discussions about gestational weight gain with health care providers during pregnancy and postpartum: a qualitative study was published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2017)