Table 3.
Association of mother’s personal gestational weight gain targets and their pre-pregnancy weight category
| Pre-pregnancy BMI | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Overweight | Obese | Total | ||
| Accuracy of mother’s weight gain target | Under IOM rec | 18 (40.9 %) | 6 (16.7 %) | 7 (23.26 %) | 31 (28.2 %) |
| Within IOM rec | 23 (52.3 %) | 23 (63.9 %) | 15 (50 %) | 61 (55.5 %) | |
| Above IOM rec | 3 (6.8 %) | 7 (19.4 %) | 8 (26.7 %) | 18 (16.4 %) | |
| 44 (100 %) | 36 (100 %) | 30 (100 %) | 110 (100 %) | ||
Only 110 of the 123 women in the sample responded to the survey question about personal weight gain target
χ 2(4) = 9.781, p = 0.044