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Doctors in the U.K. are overweight pregnant women drugs to the chance of obesity in their baby. It is of a trial in four cities. Women are “dangerously overweight” have the of taking the drug. Professor Jane Norman of Edinburgh University said: “Many women perfectly healthy but there is very evidence that women who are obese have an increased of pregnancy problems. Their babies at risk and we'd like to that risk.”

than 15 per cent of pregnant women in the UK are . This increases the risk of the baby before it is born, or of having health after birth. Research shows that overweight babies are as likely to become obese . The trial has made many health experts . They say the answer is not a for the baby. Rather, doctors should tell overweight mothers to and eat healthily. Dr Norman agrees, but she said women who start their pregnancy overweight need more elp.