They have recently published a study aiming one of the causes of children being born with Congenital Heart Disease at overweight and obese moms. I can't agree or disagree with this study as ANYONE for ANY REASON can have a child with CHD. They don't have any solid answers for this so I really feel they may be just looking for something to connect it to.
What I do know for fact is that I have a child with Congenital Heart Disease and have met two other ladies on this board recently who also have children with CHD. Gina and Jen (Monkeybabies and Kncmamma), along with myself have sons who have Congenital Heart Disease. With their permission I am posting this to find out if there are any more people on the boards who have children, grandchildren, etc with CHD or know anyone with it. Since it is estimated that 1 in 100-150 babies are born with it each year and this is, after all, a board where people with weight problems come for support I would be very interested, as would Gina and Jen I'm sure, to connect with other people on this issue.
http://www.congenitalheartdefects.com/
This link will take you to a site that has statistics on CHD and information about all the different defects.
Please don't think that I am in any way implying that all overweight people are going to have heart babies and that's the only reason why. My son's is genetic and Jen's son's came with Down Syndrome. I just think this would be a great way to find more CHD connections and maybe get more opinions on the issue.