Medical Questions & Answers

1. Depression. However hard you may try to convince yourself otherwise, this is bound to creep up on you sometime or the other.
2. Lassitude, lethargy and a general lack of well-being.
3. Proneness to respiratory difficulties, hypertension and other heart problems.
4. Serious difficulties in reproduction, menstrual abnormalities.
5. Increase in body temperature, leading to rashes.
6. Increased proneness to diabetes.
If you are unable to regain your pre-pregnancy hourglass figure, at least make sure you aren’t saddled with an unhealthy, untoned and flabby body for the rest of your life. Some women allow themselves to gorge and gorge when they’re pregnant, thinking that they’ll lose it all later. They continue to gorge all the more when they’re breast-feeding. Later they get lazy and manage, at best, to put in a half-hearted and low-spirited attempt to take off what they had very enthusiastically worked towards putting on.
One, woman, with the help of a weight loss centre, knocked off about 20 kilos that she had put on during her pregnancy. Consequently, during her second pregnancy, she allowed herself to put on 25 kilos, secure in the knowledge that the weight loss centre was still around. Little did she know that each successive time, due to various metabolic factors, it gets more and more difficult to lose weight after a pregnancy.

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