# USPSTF 2021: behavioral counseling for healthy weight and weight gain in pregnancy

Guideline · id `maternal:guideline-uspstf-2021-weight-gain-pregnancy` · Maternal & Newborn Atlas · release `fc5a600ec7387e71` (public)

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## In plain language

A 2021 statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force advising clinicians to offer pregnant people effective counseling that helps them gain weight in a healthy way and avoid excess weight gain.

## Technical summary

USPSTF recommendation statement, JAMA 2021, volume 325, issue 20 (PubMed issue date 2021-05-25); new in 2021. A B recommendation, recorded as a claim on the weight gain page. Whether a later edition exists was not checked. No recommendation decision is recorded: a decision needs an intervention, technology, drug or product, and this atlas has no record for behavioral counselling on weight gain. The issuer is the shared USPSTF record in core.

## Connected pages

- Issued by the US Preventive Services Task Force: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (`core:uspstf`)

## Provenance

Content hash: 4eb264ed83bfa204becdf83aa2953bfe0eb043b7fe1bd6307d9730fec9599b49
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-14