“…In the United Kingdom, around half of women commence pregnancy overweight or obese (Euro‐Peristat Project, 2018), with the United Kingdom having the highest rates of maternal obesity in Europe (Devlieger et al, 2016). Women who are obese (with a body mass index [BMI] of 30 or over) are at a greater risk of complications in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods (Bakun, Karatieieva, Semenenko, Yurkiv, & Berbets, 2018), and excess gestational weight gain is associated with postnatal weight retention (Begum, Colman, McCargar, & al., 2012; Endres et al, 2015) and longer term adverse maternal health effects (Valgeirsdottir et al, 2019).…”