Maternity : Emotions During Pregnancy

Understanding pregnancy and the changes caused by it help the future moms live through this period a lot more easier.

Hormonal modifications affect the emotional state with each pregnancy, not only at the first one. However, at the first pregnancy, this kind of manifestations can lead to a more difficult bearing of this period.

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• The first pregnancy trimester starts with major hormonal modifications, together with physical changes more or less visible. The main two hormones, estrogen and progesterone, which play a very important part during pregnancy can cause nausea, vomiting, an increased sensibility at the breast level, and emotional instability. These variations can happen at a very large scale, pregnant women being able to pass from euphoria states to depressions in a very short time, with or even without a reason.

Your life as a couple can suffer during this period, depending on your partner's ability to see and understand the changes that happen to the pregnant woman. The feeling of vulnerability, especially in the case of an unplanned pregnancy, but not necessarily, financial reasons, the imminence of the great responsibility that knocks on your door, especially at the first pregnancy, the fear of pain and others contribute to depression states.

• Starting with the second trimester, the hormonal storms start to mellow off, and the manifestations generated by them start to disappear. The spontaneous abortion becomes less likely to happen.

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Pregnant women start to regain their self-confidence, and get used to being pregnant. The fetal movements appear and the feeling of another person's presence is very special. Turning back to past activities, starting new ones, like the visits to the doctor or the lessons for pregnancy and birth, contribute to the optimistic state that characterize this period. Nevertheless, the feelings and anxiety experimented during pregnancy are intense and very different, unique for each woman.

• The third trimester combines the feeling of pride with the anxiety caused by not knowing how the baby is going to turn out after giving birth. The significant changes in waste are going to attract the attention of the people around towards the pregnant woman, but they do not always see this as a positive thing. Although they often need help, the vulnerability feeling can rise in some cases.

• During the last weeks of pregnancy, the anxiety can aggravate together with physical discomfort. You can have problems when sleeping, even insomnia, caused by the impossibility to find a comfortable position to sleep. The periodical contractions cause discomfort, so does the position of the fetus in the uterus. Women can feel very vulnerable at refuses, loss or insults during this period. They can feel ugly and unwanted by their partners.

Pregnant women are eager to finish with the discomfort caused by the pregnancy, but at the same time, they are concerned about the reality of becoming mothers and the changes that will follow in their marriage and family, especially about the way that the new family member will affect the other brothers. They can be worried about the pain of birth, especially if they have had unpleasant experiences at previous births, or if it is their first one and they do not know what to expect. During the last weeks of pregnancy, women are also concerned by the health of their future child.