If you are a female who is clinically overweight, you may experience problems when you start trying to conceive.
Being overweight does affect fertility.
In a perfect world, all women would be perfectly proportioned and weigh just the right amount without being too thin or too heavy.
Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world. Here in the real world, many women are overweight, and quite a few are heavy enough to be termed clinically overweight.
How Does Being Overweight Affect Fertility?
According to research, fat tissue can lead to overproduction of estrogen. As a direct result of too much estrogen being produced, overweight women may have hormone imbalances that can affect their fertility.
Fertility is impacted when there is a hormone imbalance because many times, the overweight woman with out-of-whack hormones fails to ovulate.
Most doctors recommend losing weight before trying to get pregnant if you are heavy enough to be considered clinically obese. But here’s the thing—you don’t need to be strenuously dieting while you are trying to conceive, as that can affect your fertility, too.
The best approach is to shed the pounds as recommended by your doctor, wait three months, then start trying to get pregnant. Needless to say, you should eat a healthy, well balanced diet during that three months waiting period.
It is important to note that you should not diet strenuously during pregnancy or while breast feeding.
Besides affecting fertility, being clinically overweight can affect your pregnancy once you conceive, as well.
Overweight women are more prone to gestational diabetes, for instance, and more likely to give birth to a large baby; which increases the risk of having to have a Caesarian section.
Women who have gestational diabetes while pregnant are more likely to give birth to babies with jaundice.
Very heavy pregnant women are also more at risk for deep vein thrombosis or blood clots, which can be life threatening.
So, if you are clinically overweight and want to start trying to get pregnant in the near future, go ahead and see your doctor for a check-up to rule out hypothyroidism or diabetes, then get on a weight loss diet combined with an exercise routine!
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