4 out of 10 mothers overweight, hospital study finds

FOUR out of 10 mothers are overweight, a major study just published by one of the country’s largest maternity hospitals reveals.

The study was based on 5,824 mothers who attended the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital (CWIUH) in Dublin last year.

Dr Nadine Farah and her colleagues at CWIUH found that 43% of mothers were overweight — 13% were obese and 2% morbidly obese.