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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Perinatol. 2011 Jun 16;32(2):85–90. doi: 10.1038/jp.2011.63

Table 2.

Maternal weight gain by prepregnancy BMI category

Prepregnancy weight Maternal Weight Gain
Below IOM Within IOM Above IOM
N (%)* N (%) N (%)
Underweight 4720 (24.4) 8866 (45.8) 5768 (29.8)
Normal 30,168 (16.8) 70,241 (39.0) 79,647 (44.2)
Overweight 6542 (8.5) 18,024 (23.5) 52,226 (68.0)
Obese 11,129 (17.7) 14,255 (22.7) 37,540 (60.0)
*

Percent across prepregnancy weight category