A women who gains excess weight during her pregnancy increases risk for all of the following, except:

a. Need for cesarean section to deliver infant
b. Miscarriage (spontaneous abortion) of the fetus.
c. Mother developing high blood pressure.
d. Mother developing diabetes.


Ans: b. Miscarriage (spontaneous abortion) of the fetus.

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