Dr. Hassan Shehata wants to keep potentially pudgy babies from tipping the scales too high at birth, which can expose them — and their moms — to serious complications and lifelong problems. The solution, he believes, is to give the pregnant, obese women the popular diabetes drug metformin — even though the expectant mothers don’t actually have the disease.








This sounds like big pharma trying to find a problem where there is none. Here’s an idea: mom eat less fat and sugar and make sure baby gets a lot of play time.