i have vriend who is now 7months pregnant troughout her pregnansy she wuold not eet properly she is so skinny she looks like a stick and she already fainted a cuopel of times during preg... we try to get her to eat but she sais she does not have to eat everyting she sees the problem is she is skered of getting fat and hardly eat enyting" she is litterly starving herself she had laber pains the dokter putted her on bed rest but stil she wants to walk and go do shopping. can enyone help me about the dangers she can put herself and unborn baby in so i can warn her? realy conserned about baby. i ask her if she is not woried about the baby been born premature or to soon she gives a stuborn answer like that will be better because then the baby will look like her mommy, SKINNY. how irresponsebil is that. excuse my spelling pleas...
2006-11-07 02:52:22 · 11 answers · asked by manuel j 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Remind your friend that even though her body can feed off her stored fat (if she has any) and her muscles in order to sustain life, her baby CAN NOT. Starving herself will not insure that her baby will be thin. Starving herself can increase her chances of having a premature baby with health problems that could haunt her and her baby for the rest of her life.
Ask her to visit a nutrionist who can put her on an eating plan that will minimize her weight gain but still provide adequate nutrition for her child.
2006-11-07 03:24:22 · answer #1 · answered by KC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For now: Enjoy the babysitting As a babysitter you're only seeing the part-time responsibilities, you haven't really seen what happens 'behind the scenes'. I'm no mother, i'm only 14, but i've been watching my younger sibling grow up since i was ten, and it really isn't all kisses and hugs and smiles. Wait a few more years til you have a child and for now use your 'calm and relaxed, 40 year old' attitude on your schoolwork and study hard so you can get a good career and will have the money to support a baby in the future. On top of that: who will be the father? I personally believe you should be married before having children, so do you have that man in your life you want to be with forever? It'd be nice for the child to grow up with a father. Just wait a bit longer, my fourteen year old friend is obsessed with babies and can't wait to have children of her own, but she has the sense to wait til she is married or at least in a very close, working relationship and is able to support a family.
2016-05-22 07:25:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the fetus feeds on anything that the mother eats. The food she eats gives the fetus nutrients it needs to survive. Through the placenta the vitamins and other important nurtients are shared between the mother and the baby. You really need to discuss with her of the dangers she's putting her baby through at this very moment. She needs to start eating. If the baby doesn't get the required nutrients it can be still-born. Tell her that her baby will be skinny...and also probably very premature. She's hurting her baby and herself. The doctor should have told her what kind of diet she should be on. Is the following it? Talk to her about this. Hope everything goes well.
2006-11-07 03:00:13 · answer #3 · answered by Jenn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A proper diet and adequate weight gain during pregnancy are essential for good health of the mother and optimum development of her baby. If a mother doesn't gain enough weight, her baby may be born small. Low birth weight infants have a greater chance of health problems.
Basically that means if she doesn't eat she's depriving her baby of food and not allowing her baby to grow and develop properly. The baby can suffer from those negative consequences for the rest of her life.
2006-11-07 03:03:31 · answer #4 · answered by Miriam Z 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, it sounds like you all might be very young. Are you? At any rate, your friend should be seeing a Doctor, and hopefully he is informing her that she needs to eat. If she is not seeing a Doctor, then she certainly needs to. Tell her that she needs to eat, for both her own safety and that of the baby. It's not about not getting fat, it's about taking care of herself and the baby, and it's very selfish of her to not care if her baby is pre-mature, because it will be "skinny like her mom". That is the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard, and very sad. If she is more concerned about being skinny, then the health of her unborn child, then she has a lot more problems than neglecting to eat.
2006-11-07 03:03:03 · answer #5 · answered by LibraT 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My cousin, who was pregnant with twins, did the same thing. She didn't want to get fat, which is ridiculous because being pregnant does not mean that you're fat. Anyway, she went into pre-term labor. One of the babies (the boy) died 2 days later, and the girl lived, but it is a sad story. She ate baby food until she was five, because she wan unable to chew. She's blind. She's incredibley skinny (too skinny), and she's mentally impaired. Katie, the little girl, could've led a normal life, and now her mom has to look at her every day and live with what she did to her. Tell your friend to grow up, because what she's doing is child abuse.
2006-11-07 03:01:41 · answer #6 · answered by MrsN 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The baby will take what it needs from the mother as long as it can, but if your friend is so determined to be stupid and put herself and the baby in jeopardy she runs the risk of damaging the baby or maybe giving birth too early. I feel sorry for this baby, it's obvious your friend is not ready to be a parent.
2006-11-07 03:01:52 · answer #7 · answered by woodlands127 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
shes being very selfish and should be thinking of her child
i am having a rotten pregnancy I'm still sick at almost 21weeks but i know for the sake of my baby i have to try to eat
any weight gained during pregnancy can be lost after the baby is born its very sad that her own needs are coming before her baby.
you have to ask is she really ready to be a mum?
if she cant look after herself now what future does her baby have ?
sorry if i sound harsh but its 9months not forever and shes the only 1 who can help her baby atm
2006-11-07 03:05:37 · answer #8 · answered by mum_2_many 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
omg shes killing her baby slowly, the baby could be born with lots of deffects because of this ....does she at least take her vitamis?, as long as she does that the baby suffers less and when she goes to give birth she will take longer to recuperate, if i were u id drag her to the hospital and explain what shes doing they could have a phsycological evaluation to determine if pregnancy hormones are affecting her and treat her
2006-11-07 03:02:42 · answer #9 · answered by sophia's mommy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tell her she needs to gain the proper weight. What does her doc say about her weight? She doesn't want a sick baby or cause her baby to die. My sister friend was like that and when she had her baby it was stillborn tell her she doesn't want that.
2006-11-07 03:00:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋