PCOS and low-birth-weight delivery
Expectant mothers with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have an inherently elevated risk of having low-birth-weight babies, further to that explained by pregnancy complications, indicates research.
Comparing birth weights for 47 singleton pregnancies in women with well-documented PCOS and 180 in healthy controls, Teresa Sir-Petermann (University of Chile) and co-workers uncovered a markedly higher prevalence of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infants in the former group (13 percent vs 3 percent). However, only two of these SGA infants were induced preterm due to pre-eclampsia.
Possible explanations for these results include the fetal insulin hypothesis, which suggests genetic disorders in insulin processing impair insulin-mediated growth, and the fetal programming hypothesis, which blames growth restriction on an altered uterine environment.
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And my son was 9lbs 11oz - so definately not a low weight birth here either
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Possible explanations for these results include the fetal insulin hypothesis, which suggests genetic disorders in insulin processing impair insulin-mediated growth, and the fetal programming hypothesis, which blames growth restriction on an altered uterine environment.
and here my Endo told me jsut a couple of weeks ago that studies are showing that women with IR have BIGGER babies.
I had just finished reading the book "What do you do when the dr. says its PCOS" and they talked at length about women with PCOS having larger babies....like 10# or more? Am i mistaken?
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I think it is probably a combo of IR & what we eat when we are pregnant. Not all cysters have IR, so I would think that those of us that are IR would have to watch it when we are pregnant so we don't devleop GD.
Maybe the study happened to use cysters who aren't IR?
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DD was 6 lbs, 0 oz and was born exactly on her due date, so this probaby puts me in the category of "low birth weight". She was exceedingly healthy, though, and is still a healthy, skinny baby. I think the fact that my DH was 6 lbs, 4 oz when he was born full term has more to do with it than PCOS. I ate really well during the pregnancy, so I really can't imagine DD had to produce insulin for me, plus I've never tested as IR or even had a high glucose measurement on a test.
PCOS and low-birth-weight delivery 
