#specifically anorexia but also any other one. obvs yo ube more careful around weight and potentially watch her more closely because | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

catkin-morgs-kookaburralover · 2 years ago

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The phrase 'to carry a child' is to me such an unbearably tender description. You're carrying it? Nurturing and protecting it? Freely giving it what it needs until it is ready for birth? 'Going to have a baby' speaks of the hope of promise, but 'carrying a baby' gives the same implication to me, only with an added beauty of what is happening immediately as well as the future.

#midwifery #i just i have so many feelings about pregnancy and babies and women and motherhood #and i want it #i unironically think 'this would fix me' about certain things #like one of the things we get taught about is how to approach and what to avoid when dealing (specifically antenatally tho we'll go into it #more when we learn specifically about postnatal care which is next semester) with women with a history of eating disorders #specifically anorexia but also any other one. obvs yo ube more careful around weight and potentially watch her more closely because #pregnancy can trigger relapses for obvious reasons #but also there are plenty of cases where pregnancy helps #in some cases it is literally what helps them to recover from an active eating disorder #i don't know the intersection between pregnancy and eating disorders is so interesting to me #honestly if i were to go into research in any way that would probably be my preferred field of research #there are many things that make me go absolutely feral and midwifery is a field that does that to me so much

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