Stefanie N. Hinkle

TL;DR: Most women gained weight outside recommendations, and demographic, behavioral, psychosocial, and medical characteristics associated with inadequate and excessive gain stratified by prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) category varied by prep pregnancy BMI.

TL;DR: This study suggests a GWG below the Institute of Medicine guidelines may be associated with more favorable BW for all obese women, and GWG may need to be further defined by obesity severity.

TL;DR: This prospective study demonstrates a modest association between depressive symptoms early in pregnancy and an increased risk of incident GDM, as well as between GDM and subsequent postpartum depression risk, highlighting pregnancy and the post partum period as an important susceptible time window during the life course for the interplay between depression and glucose intolerance phenotypes.

TL;DR: The association between parity and birthweight was non-linear with the greatest increase observed between first- and second-born infants of the same mother and adjustment for changes in weight or chronic diseases did not change the relationship.

TL;DR: Children whose mothers were severely obese before pregnancy had increased risk for adverse developmental outcomes, and adjustment for potential causal pathway factors did not substantially affect most estimates.