Table 1.
Characteristics of First Baby Study participants by Gestational Weight Gain (GWG), N= 2,767.
| Factor/Variable Name | Total | Exceeded Recommended GWG N=1,538 (55.6%) |
Did Not Exceed Recommended GWG N=1,229 (44.4%) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical activity during pregnancy | <0.01 | ||||
| Inactive (<60 min/wk) | 741(26.8) | 444(28.9) | 297(24.2) | ||
| Minimally active (60–149 min/wk) | 1139(41.2) | 657(42.7) | 482(39.2) | ||
| Active (≥150 min/wk) | 887(32.1) | 437(28.4) | 450(36.6) | ||
| Prepregnancy weight category | <0.01 | ||||
| Normal weight | 1537(55.5) | 651(42.3) | 886(72.1) | ||
| Overweight | 635(22.9) | 500(32.5) | 135(11) | ||
| Obese | 595(21.5) | 387(25.2) | 208(16.9) | ||
| Age group—years | 0.98 | ||||
| 18–24 | 704(25.4) | 389(25.3) | 315(25.6) | ||
| 25–29 | 1106(40) | 617(40.1) | 489(39.8) | ||
| 30–36 | 957(34.6) | 532(34.6) | 425(34.6) | ||
| Race/Ethnicity | 0.02 | ||||
| White | 2313(83.6) | 1301(84.6) | 1012(82.3) | ||
| Black | 200(7.2) | 113(7.3) | 87(7.1) | ||
| Hispanic | 151(5.5) | 78(5.1) | 73(5.9) | ||
| Asian | 54(2) | 18(1.2) | 36(2.9) | ||
| Other | 49(1.8) | 28(1.8) | 21(1.7) | ||
| Education | <0.01 | ||||
| High school degree or less | 440(15.9) | 259(16.8) | 181(14.7) | ||
| Some college | 743(26.9) | 441(28.7) | 302(24.6) | ||
| College degree or higher | 1584(57.2) | 838(54.5) | 746(60.7) | ||
| Poverty Status | 0.96 | ||||
| Poverty | 223(8.6) | 125(8.6) | 98(8.5) | ||
| Near Poverty | 224(8.6) | 127(8.7) | 97(8.4) | ||
| Not Poverty | 2157(82.8) | 1201(82.7) | 956(83.1) | ||
| Marital Status | 0.03 | ||||
| Married | 1962(70.9) | 1057(68.8) | 905(73.6) | ||
| Living with partner | 494(17.9) | 299(19.5) | 195(15.9) | ||
| Not living with partner | 173(6.3) | 100(6.5) | 73(5.9) | ||
| Not partnered | 137(5) | 81(5.3) | 56(4.6) | ||
| Gestational age at delivery, weeks—mean (SD) | 39.4 (1.1) | 39.5 (1.2) | 39.4 (1.1) | 0.34 | |
| Smokes Daily | <0.01 | ||||
| Yes | 102(3.7) | 70(4.6) | 32(2.6) | ||
| No | 2665(96.3) | 1468(95.4) | 1197(97.4) | ||