Pregnancy and Post-partum When You Struggle with Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders and Body Image

Pregnancy and Post-partum Tips When You Struggle with Eating Disorders and Body Image Issues

Are you pregnant or do you have a new born baby?

Are you struggling with body image and food?

This is a topic, I haven’t talked about before.

I don’t know why! I have three children myself with first-hand experience of going through two pregnancies and two post-partum periods.

My daughter came first and then twin boys second time.

Two years apart. It was VERY intense on many fronts!

Pregnancy can be hugely challenging – if you have body image struggles and food anxieties.

If you’ve previously used food or a focus on body as a means of coping – you can be placed in the driving seat of stress. Pregnancy and babies bring joy and wonderment but can also bring anxiety, change and life upheaval. You can feel out of control.

You might experience isolation or loneliness, a change in your body, a shift in your identity – now being a mother and also readjusting your previous relationship to work and who you are.

Having a baby is a huge life transition, it’s truly wonderful and it’s sometimes incredibly hard.

I share 12 tips to support you (based on my personal experience and client shares from the therapy room) including: -