5As of Healthy Pregnancy Weight Gain ^TM Framework

5As of Healthy Pregnancy Weight Gain™ Framework will introduce you to an office-based framework to help you discuss and manage gestational weight gain with your patients. It is a short online continuing medical education course designed for family physicians, midwives, nurse practitioners and obstetricians offering antenatal care in Canada and will take approximately 1 hour to complete.

Upon completion of this module, Perinatal Services BC is able to send each BC primary care provider one full 5As of Healthy Weight Gain in Pregnancy toolkit. Please see details at end of module to receive your free toolkit. For providers practicing outside of BC, toolkits can be ordered through the Canadian Obesity Network.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course you will be able to:

1. Highlight the importance of healthy gestational weight gain;
2. Describe the IOM guidelines and the 5As framework for healthy pregnancy weight gain;
3. Employ the 5As of Healthy Pregnancy Weight Gain™ framework for counselling patients about healthy pregnancy weight gain;
4. Describe a practical approach for applying the 5As framework in a busy health care setting; and
5. Identify and utilize resources to support the adoption of behaviours that facilitate healthy weight gain during pregnancy and the adoption of the 5As of Healthy Pregnancy Weight Gain™ framework in practice.

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