“…Tierney, Fox, Butterfield, Stringer, and Furber (2011) described how women with ED seem to be caught between opposite loyalties (between their ED and the future baby's demands) during pregnancy. A study of women with AN (Mason, Cooper, & Turner, 2012) highlighted the theme of 'new meaning of embodiment', which the authors define as a difficulty in adapting to a new status and the emergence of a new relationship with the body during pregnancy. Other studies have focused on one particular aspect of motherhood, such as the post-partum period (Patel, Lee, Wheatcroft, Barnes, & Stein, 2005) and found that women with ED reported being highly distressed by the intensity of body and shape concerns, or breastfeeding (Stapleton, Fielder, & Kirkham, 2008).…”