Introduction
Obesity, weight gain, weight retention
OBESITY
More than half of women enter pregnancy with a body mass index (BMI) in the overweight (BMI≥25kg/mWeight management interventions delivered during pregnancy can significantly improve women’s diet and physical activity (PA) behaviours, reduce GWG and postnatal weight retention, and reduce the risk of developing some adverse pregnancy outcomes [In the UK, national guidelines for weight management during pregnancy include recommendations relevant to health professionals’ routine practice [The GestationaL Obesity Weight management: Implementation of National Guidelines (GLOWING) intervention was developed using social cognitive theory (SCT) to address the evidence-based barriers to the implementation of guidelines regarding weight management in pregnancy [Materials and methodsThe aim of the GLOWING intervention was to support midwives’ implementation of UK guidelines for weight management during pregnancy into routine practice. The aim of the implementation of these guidelines is to improve pregnant women’s diet and physical activity behaviours and gestational weight gain. This paper reports the descriptive analysis of the midwives’ self-reported SCT constructs related to implementation of the UK guideline recommendations.