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Help please! what eating disorders can a pregnant women get and why?

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All kinds: There is so much going on during pregnancy both physically and emotionally. Food becomes different; women are now feeding someone else while they are feeding themselves. The high calorie foods (sometimes junk) they might deprive themselves of are now "in limits" on the other end of the spectrum some women cannot distinguish between "fat" and pregnant so they do harm by depriving themselves.

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Dr. Alan Ali answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Eating DO: Any type of eating disorder is possible during pregnancy depending on premorbid condition prior to getting pregnant.

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