Although anorexia nervosa and bulimia have always been more in adolescents, Mª Carmen González, coordinator of ADANER (Association for the Defense of Attention to Nervous Anorexia and Bulimia), has warned that there are more and more women between 30 and 40 years that suffer from anorexia or bulimia after giving birth.
The eating disorder appears linked to postpartum depression, both in women who had previously suffered from anorexia or bulimia and had overcome it, as in women who appear for the first time. The sadness that causes them to have to leave their baby to join work, coupled with the concern of being thin so that their peers see them well, can trigger an eating disorder. Mª Carmen González affirms that in their association they have many of these cases and that for them they created the Maternaje Unit five years ago. Women who suffer or have suffered eating disorders, receive help throughout the process of pregnancy and motherhood, because if “they have lost the sense of their diet, they may not know how to feed their children.
They also help women who for the first time suffer from the disease after giving birth, women who quickly stop breastfeeding their baby to go on a diet.
For women who have suffered or suffer from eating disorders, we ask them to think about taking care of themselves and how important it is to have health, both for themselves and for their future children.
