Skipping meals and dieting can affect a developing baby. According to various health
care organisations like WHO,FAO and ICMR, restricting weight gain can increase your
chance for delivering a low birth weight infant. Weight gain is important to provide
for maternal body changes, too. Besides the weight of the fetus, increased blood
volume, enlarged breasts, placenta, and amniotic fluid, all add up to an increase
in the expecting mother's weight.