Contents:
- Medical Video: Pregnancy and Purging - Harmful to Baby?
- What is bulimia?
- The impact of bulimia on pregnant women during pregnancy
- 1. Diabetes during pregnancy
- 2. Having a miscarriage
- 3. Give birth to a premature baby
- The impact of bulimia on pregnant women after pregnancy
- 1. Postpartum depression
- 2. Symptoms baby blues
- 3. Psychotic
- 4. Not giving breast milk
- The impact of bulimia on babies
- 1. Birth defect
- 2. Low birth weight babies (LBW)
Medical Video: Pregnancy and Purging - Harmful to Baby?
Pregnancy is a period when a mother prepares nutrition for her child in her womb and nutrition for herself during pregnancy and postpartum. Adequacy of nutrition is the most important thing for mother and baby safety and health. Eating disorders or bulimia can reduce the intake of pregnant women, thereby reducing the supply of nutrients during pregnancy.
Just like bulimia in general, bulimia in pregnant women can also be caused by concerns about gaining weight, although weight gain during pregnancy is normal. The condition of bulimia in women before pregnancy increases the risk of cessation of the menstrual cycle and even eliminates the opportunity to have children, but during pregnancy the adverse effects on health can be greater for both the mother and the baby.
What is bulimia?
What is bulimia?
Bulimia is a eating disorder. Bulimics often cannot stop eating and always eat large amounts of food in the short term without being able to control it. Then, they will make themselves vomit, fast, and exercise very hard but irregularly to lose weight, so patients with bulimia usually do not experience excess weight.
The impact of bulimia on pregnant women during pregnancy
During pregnancy, the body will try to store more reserve nutrients to maintain the health of the womb. Bulimia conditions during pregnancy cause health problems that threaten the pregnancy process.
1. Diabetes during pregnancy
The urge to eat large amounts of food by bulimics risks increasing the increase in blood glucose levels which causes diabetes during pregnancy. Even though food is reissued, it does not rule out the possibility of an increase in glucose in the blood, while the body cannot produce enough insulin.
2. Having a miscarriage
Women with active bulimia will experience an increased risk of miscarriages due to barriers to the development of the baby in the womb, due to a reduced source of baby food from the placenta. One that increases the risk of miscarriage is experiencing diabetes during pregnancy.
3. Give birth to a premature baby
In addition to not being able to fulfill the body's nutritional needs for itself, the bulimia condition of pregnant women triples the risk of preterm birth.
The impact of bulimia on pregnant women after pregnancy
After giving birth, the effects of bulimia that can still be experienced by the baby's mother are psychological disorders and difficulty giving breast milk.
1. Postpartum depression
Can occur shortly after giving birth or, up to one year after giving birth. Bulimia can basically cause interference mood will affect the interaction between mother and baby. Mothers with postpartum depression will feel easily tired, irritable, experience changes in sleep and diet, and withdraw from the environment.
2. Symptoms baby blues
This condition is also a mood disorder that usually occurs after four to five days after giving birth. These symptoms are characterized by negative feelings that usually cause the baby's mother to cry for no apparent reason. In addition, it is also accompanied by changes in extreme feelings or known as mood swings.
3. Psychotic
It is the most serious form of depression that causes individuals to hallucinate. As a result, abnormal behavior, suicidal thoughts, and hurts their own children.
4. Not giving breast milk
One of the problems experienced by bulimics after childbirth is feeling worried when giving ASI and not being able to give breast milk for up to six months. Based on the results of the study, mothers with eating disorders were twice the risk of not being able to give breast milk until the baby was six months old.
The impact of bulimia on babies
The following are developmental disorders in infants when pregnant women experience bulimia actively:
1. Birth defect
Pregnancy period is a period that determines the quality of baby's health at birth. Disorders of eating patterns will lead to limited nutrition in pregnant women, as a result of which the womb baby does not get enough nutrition to experience developmental problems. The form of disability that occurs can be blindness or mental retardation due to disruption of fetal brain development.
2. Low birth weight babies (LBW)
This is caused if the mother has a body mass index that is too low. Lack of intake during pregnancy will reduce the amount of baby nutrition and can inhibit the development of the baby in the womb. Babies with LBW also have a risk of health problems.
Bulimia is an eating disorder that causes a person to limit it to reduce intake to the extreme. Bulimia during pregnancy does not only reduce the nutritional intake of pregnant women but also nutrition of the fetus. The effect of bulimia on pregnant women is not only experienced during the pregnancy process but also after pregnancy, but the consequences are greater for the baby.
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