Hello, In this article Eli Reshef, a reproductive specialist and also serves as the medical director of Integris Bennett Fertility Institute will tell us more about the impact of obesity on pregnancy chances. He evaluates and treat infertility, miscarriages, abnormal hormones, including polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis, and fibroids. Let’s talk about obesity and reproduction. In his practice, weight issues, including obesity, are very, very common. When he first see a patient with weight problems, his assumption is that she is already very, very aware of her weight as a health issue. Many of his overweight patients have struggle with this physical matter for years and have tried numerous times and ways to lose weight. They have been lectured to, judged and often ridiculed by friends, family, strangers and even medical personnel. What these patients really need first is the reassurance that they should not expect a stern lecture or sermon by me about this issue in every visit and should not dread coming to see me because of a patronizing or condescending attitude. His job, as a caring physician, is to educate these patients about reasonable weight loss expectations and the overall health consequences of obesity, especially in pregnancy.
Unless the overweight patient is physically sick, for example with uncontrolled diabetes or high blood pressure or heart problems, he does not deny her reproductive treatment. He emphasizes that the improvement in general health by losing weight is likely to increase her chance to get pregnant, reduce the chance of miscarriages and reduce complications in pregnancy. One of the most important statements to overweight patients, as a father himself, is that they should look forward, not only to have a baby, but a healthy baby.
They should also look forward to being health effective parents that should see their children through important milestones in their lives, including graduations, marriages and grandchildren. The time to alert people about weight issues is when they’re still young, when health problems can still be reversed or prevented. This is usually when they come to see him. At a relatively young age when reproduction is their main concern. The job is to provide the big picture regarding health, not just address reproduction. A gentle approach to this sensitive problem is often more effective than a stern lecture.
And if the patient chooses to take charge of her health, he’s one of her biggest cheerleaders..
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