Donna Simpson Becomes World's Heaviest Mom!!!

Pregnant women take note, trying to break the Guinness World Record for becoming the fattest woman to have given birth will not be easy.

That's because, until recently, the category didn't exist. Enter Donna Simpson, a New Jersey resident who is trying to become the world's fattest woman.

Simpson, who can barely walk, weighed 532 pounds when she gave birth to her daughter, Jacqueline, who weighed 8-and-a-half pounds, at Akron's City Hospital in Akron, Ohio. In September, representatives from Guinness World Records will honor Simpson at a ceremony in New York City for being the heaviest woman to have given birth.

According to the Daily Mail, Simpson needed a team of 30 medical professionals to deliver her daughter during a high-risk Cesarean birth, which is common in obese women because the baby is unable to come into position correctly, said Dr. Laura Corio, AOL Health's Women's Health expert.

"I've never heard of anything like this in my life," Corio said. "How do you even get pregnant or have an ovulation to get pregnant? How can you not get into trouble?"

There are tests like amniocentesis or ultrasounds, which are staples during pregnancy, that could be misread in patients who are extremely overweight, said Dr. Lois Brustman, a maternal fetal medicine specialist at Roosevelt Hospital. Seriously overweight women don't ovulate or have irregular periods, which can cause them to have problems with conception.

They also face a higher-than-average risk of experiencing heart disease, preeclampsia, high blood pressure, more blood clotting, stroke or gestational diabetes. They may experience more joint pain from carrying excess weight. Doctors also have a hard time determining medications the mother should receive because dosages are tested on average-weight individuals.

Many times this also leads to extremely large or small babies, who have not gotten adequate nutrition from their mother if she thrives on junk food as part of her diet. The babies may also develop diabetes, heart disease or have other problems later in life because of the poor uterine environment they were originally in.

Most doctors recommend that women who are overweight get in shape before they become pregnant. Overweight women should gain 15 to 25 pounds during pregnancy. Those who are obese should gain 11 to 20 pounds. The largest woman Corio has treated was about 300 pounds, however, the pregnancy was relatively normal. Although doctors do not recommend extreme diets during pregnancy, Corio's patient didn't put on any weight during pregnancy. Instead, because of her diabetes, she carefully monitored the foods she ate.

Simpson, who still has diabetes, first experienced it in pregnancy. She's also battling high cholesterol, but told the Akron Beacon Journal that she feels like a healthy, sexy 42-year old. Ideally, she said, she'd like to be 1,000 pounds, which would make her the heaviest living woman in the world. The heaviest woman who has ever lived was Rosalie Bradford, a Florida resident who tipped the scales at more than 1,000 pounds.

"It might be hard though," said Simpson, who can eat 70 big pieces of sushi at a time and needs a scooter to get around. "Running after my daughter keeps my weight down."

Although Simpson has thousands of followers who pay $15 per month to get access to photos and videos of the mom on www.donnasimpson.com, she also has received hate mail and offers to pay for her to lose weight. Earlier this year, Dr. Sanford Siegal, who started the famous Cookie Diet, said he would give Simpson $50,000 to drop to 200 pounds.

"I didn't make my offer to Ms. Simpson to 'reward' her," Siegal explained at the time. "I made it in order to try to reverse the dangerous message that her actions have sent via the media. If my intervention helps save her life, then that's great, but my main focus is the public at large."

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