Lingering baby weight? Don't blame the pregnancy

Women have long blamed pregnancy for weight gains that linger after their babies are born, but a new study suggests the demands of motherhood might be to blame.“We found that by one or two years after birth, women who had children were very similar [in weight gain] to those who did not,” said lead researcher Olga Yakusheva. She is an associate professor of nursing at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.However, “from that time on, women with children were gaining weight at