A New Breed Of Addicts – Bumpaholics

Jane Doe has an addiction. No, she is not an drug addict, alcoholic, or a shopoholic, she is a ‘bumpaholic’—a person who is addicted to being pregnant.

With large families, such as the Jolies and Klums, stealing the celebrity spotlight big families are not only becoming more socially acceptable but they have a certain undefined glamour about them.  The Today Show featured a piece from the upcoming issue of Woman’s Health that focused on woman that feel a deep need to be pregnant and feel it is socially acceptable to keep on procreating.

“Women who are obsessed with being pregnant are literally filling an emptiness inside of them, just as alcoholics and drug addicts use substances to fill a psychological void,” stated a Beverly Hills psychiatrist Carole Lieberman, M.D.

And it keeps you busy.

American psychiatrist, Keith Ablow, M.D said that for some women, “Bearing another child can sometimes provide a substitute for deciding on a career path, making a marriage work, or even wrestling with questions of self-worth.”

According to the article, some women strive for multiple pregnancies in an attempt to recapture those special nine months before birth: a time of parties in your honour, more attention and eating what you want.

But what do you think? Is Bumpaholic-ism real or yet another term drummed up by ‘experts’?

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