pregorexia
Pregorexia Impacts the Eating Disorder Field
Maggie Baumann’s second pregnancy over twenty years ago pushed her into restricting her caloric intake and forced her to exercise excessively. She did all this in a desperate effort to maintain her body shape and in fear that she did not gain the 33lbs she had in her first pregnancy. Instead of enjoying the freedom of eating for two, Maggie starved herself and her unborn child. In so doing, she unwittingly became part of a group of pregnant mothers whose prior battles with eating disorder behaviors continued throughout their pregnancies. read more...
Pregorexia - Anorexia that Dangers Pregnant Mothers and their Children
There are many factors that go into the cause of an eating disorder, and each woman who arrives here in Southern California to seek help from our Victorian eating disorder treatment centers has her own history and personal set of circumstances which our team of eating disorder clinicians will help her unravel and work through during the process of treating her at the Victorian. read more...
