Pre-pregnancy weight linked with child's weight


	Pre-pregnancy weight linked with child's weight

Deepti

11-7-2007 6:26 AM

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pregnancy, baby, mother, health, weight, research, fat

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11-11-2007 11:45 AM

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It strikes me that this might always have been the case and so why was this not checked out ages ago. I would have expected this to have been top of any list for checking. All the data is already there surely. Am I missing something?

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