[aquarose]

Absolutely not. Additionally, I think even if you're at a healthy weight (or even overweight) it's best to try and avoid having children when you have an ED so you don't pass on ED behaviours to them.

 

[froggygirl]

Don't even go there.

The word is "seemed all good". You have no fucking clue how the baby is doing now. How the child is doing now. How the mother is doing now with her health.

I get that we're all disordered here but DO NOT spread misinformation and anecdotes as fact.

She's talked about it on her podcast and said it all went well and that there both healthy though

 

[wuthering panacea]

Wow reading all these replies really makes me feel like an outlier.

I got pregnant with a bmi of 15.2 and I had my baby at a bmi of 15.5.

All the way through pregnancy, everything was fine with no problems.

He came out at a higher weight than average and he was perfectly healthy. I was absolutely fine too

 

[Milianna]

Wow reading all these replies really makes me feel like an outlier.

I got pregnant with a bmi of 15.2 and I had my baby at a bmi of 15.5.
All the way through pregnancy, everything was fine with no problems.
He came out at a higher weight than average and he was perfectly healthy. I was absolutely fine too

In biology and just in statistics and life in general, there's always going to be the exception to the rule.

Like could someone theoretically do drugs, smoke, or drink during a pregnancy and be ok? Yes. Does this mean that doing such behaviors doing a pregnancy is advisable for the health and safety of you or pregnancy? No. Does the fact that there are the outliers make the above mentioned behaviors then safe and ideal conditions for having a child? No.

So yeah. The presence of outliers doesn't really surprise me. But with every rule, there seems to be an exception and exceptions don't serve to disprove the entire rule. Looking through this thread, I'm seeing a lot more people with first hand experience of how they had been harmed.

I'm glad that you managed to have a healthy pregnancy and I wish you and your child the best 💝

 

[Milianna]

I will add that anyone with an ED who gets pregnant. No matter the weight, should tell their OB/GYN about their ED history and get specific help about this if at all possible.

EDs could very well make your pregnancy a high risk pregnancy. And to those that think that because they're.of a "normal" or overweight bmi that they're safe, nope. It's been noted that people with bulimia have higher rates of miscarriage than people without. Malnutrition is malnutrition no matter what the bmi or weight of you is and that's not at all good for you or the pregnancy.

 

[lithesome]

If your BMI is naturally 16, then maybe, just maybe, although I'm pretty sure you'd still have to gain to be able to sustain a baby. Maybe that's why pregnant women have cravings, so they eat to provide the baby a healthy, like, space and give it the nutrients it needs.

Just what I think, I've done no research on this whatsoever.

 

[erythritol]

Considering how I looked in the 16s, no way in hell.