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Waking up every day in a body that is not yours: a qualitative research inquiry into the intersection between eating disorders and pregnancy.

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Abstract
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Women with eating disorders are more likely to negatively react to finding out they are pregnant, although this difference in attitudes between women with eating disorders and controls disappears at 18-weeks' gestation. Those with anorexia also are twice as likely to have an unplanned pregnancy and those with bulimia have a 30-fold increased chance compared with healthy controls. Therefore, due to these considerations, pregnancy and the transition to motherhood can be an extremely challenging time for these women both psychologically and physically. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to understand the intersection between eating disorders and pregnancy from the lived experience of women who have been pregnant or want to or do not want to become pregnant.

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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BMC pregnancy and childbirth
Volume
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18
Issue
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1
Number of Pages
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463
Date Published
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2018
URL
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https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-018-2105-6
DOI
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10.1186/s12884-018-2105-6
Short Title
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BMC Pregnancy Childbirth
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