What Happens to Babies Born From Mothers With Bulimia?

As I had said, my next step for my research was to find out what happen to children who whad mothers with active bulimia. I find out in a Google link that mothers who decide to have a baby when they still have bulimia have babies with birth defects. Mothers with eating disorders would always have a higher risk of having kids with defects than normal healthy womens. Babies cold be born premature, wich means that you baby is born befote the 9 months, which makes the baby to have low biirth wight that can lead to have other medical problems including dying.

Premature babies can have other problems such as learning disabilities,lungs disease, and psychiatric illnesses like anxiety and hyperactive disorder. This babies also have increased chances of having an infant death , sometimes the baby may seem healthy but still they dont reach the expected adult age, what makes their life’s shorter. In fact, the more premature and low birth weight the baby has, the more chance of disabilities it would have.

The most common illnesses that this babies who survive and are born from mothers with active eating disorders are ushually blindness and mental retardaTion. Health problems in babies of women with eating disorders may not appear before the middle age of the kid because what can happen befote this ages may be a health permanent problem.

Researchers also investigate about the people that were born during the Dutch famine in World War II. Mothers just had little amount of calories a day, which made that most babies died befote birth or shortly after it. Many of the babies who survived seemed to be fine and healthy and even some times had a normal or near a normal birth weight, but when they went through the middle ages get chronic diseases in a more higher risk than born people from mothers who ate.

This made doctors concluye that babies born from mothers who had starved, may be born withought diseases at first until middle ages where they get most of diseases. Diseases that include heart and vascular illnesses and others.

I think that women who have active bulimia shouldnt have babies at that time of their life’s because they are affecting a person and their self’s by having a child who is gong to suffer because fo its defects. Also it is worst for themselves because their child cold also die or have an illness like blindness or mental retardación that can be worst than dying. For my opinion having a baby when you are a bulimic is so meeting very serios because your giving life to someone who may suffer a lot because of its defects and have many difficulties. That baby may not accomplish many of what he wants to do in his future because of its disabilities.

For me women who have babies when they have bulimia , is sort of an act of selfish because they would suffer but also their baby. Having this defects is very dissapointment specially because as I said for many people it can be worst than dying. My advice for the womens who want to have babies is that first they stop this illnes with medical help and then ask your doctor if when you are a normal women then, who just had bulimia before but aren’t anymore can have a baby. That should probably better and give you a better chance of having a normal, healthy kid.

My next step for my research which I have to investigate for my project is do drugs influence on having an eating disorder? Which I think it would help my project to be very complete by answering this question to people who are interested to know.