Psychological Pregnancy
What is the psychological pregnancy
We have often heard of psychological pregnancy, even certain that at some point we believed suffering from it, especially when we suffer menstrual delays of several days.
But do we know exactly what it is and why it occurs? In most cases the mistake to believe that we are pregnant with a real psychological pregnancy.
It is a disease of the mind, ie it is a disease and should be treated as such. Occurs when a woman thinks she is pregnant but is not. Normally happens to women who want a child but do not get it (though it also occurs in men with a lower frequency and pets).
The effects on the woman’s body are the same as a real pregnancy, menstrual cycles are modified and mammary glands, even may have nausea, weight gain and may feel fetal movements.
In the case of men, pregnancy Piscola usually produced by large identification with his pregnant wife.
Treatment for women with this type of pregnancy is psychological or therapeutic value and must be very careful with the person who suffers it not to fall into a depression to know that is not really pregnant.
Psychological State Affects Baby
During pregnancy, everything that happens in the body of the woman affects the embryo, by this we mean not only physical but also psychological.
Women during pregnancy suffer from depression or anxiety are at risk of having low birth weight children. Which predisposes to increased mortality. According to studies, mental status of the mother has greater influence on the fetus that nutrition or socioeconomic status.
The underweight in infants can lead to greater risk of developing serious illness and death.
Psychology: Your Emotional State
For a woman, pregnancy is much more than a fact that compromises your body. It is not only of biological, physical, hormonal, but there is a revolution in psychological and emotional.
For most psychologists pregnancy is an important event in women caused mixed feelings. On the one hand, is a source of great joy, and secondly, the cause of many fears. Emotional changes were already apparent during the first month of the quarter. There’s no physical signs that show evidence of pregnancy, but possibly you are very tired, sleepy, somewhat confused by how the pregnancy will develop more sensitive … It seems that the action of hormones has much to do in that mood. Read the rest of this entry »
Psychological Pregnancy
One in six pregnancies are estimated to be psychological. The last and most significant recent case occurred in the U.S. On opening the uterus and can not find the baby after he tried to induce labor at the hospital found no fetus.
This is an extreme case but not the first time it happens, is a rare psychological disorder but relatively common, common in many mammals (in dogs is very common) and not only in humans. It is estimated that about 22,000 pregnancies are psychological.
Physical and Psychological Changes in Trisemester Pregnancy
PHYSICAL CHANGES
During the first quarter, she focuses mainly on physical changes. In the absence of menstruation, is often added some discomfort in the pelvis and increased vaginal secretions.
Women feel more tired and have more sleep than normal, because your body is working very hard to form the placenta and embryo development. You may also suffer vomiting and dizziness after getting up in the morning.
Rise
This is due to metabolic and hormonal changes she is experiencing, especially the concentration of the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin, or HCG, responsible for secreting estrogen and progesterone in early pregnancy. This hormone is to detect blood and urine to see if the woman is pregnant or not.
It is also common for the mother feel the need to urinate more often because the uterus begins to press on the bladder.
Increase the volume of the breasts and are more sensitive due to the action of estrogen and progesterone. These changes occur in preparation for lactation.
The areola, the pigmented area around the nipple, acquires a darker color below the skin is a network of bluish lines that supplies blood to the breasts.
It is also during this period that increases the production of maternal blood (hematopoiesis), whose main function to promote the exchange of nutrients in the bloodstream of the fetus.
This increased production of blood, about a liter and half liter or more than usual, gives a woman that looks healthy and glowing is said to acquire pregnant.
In this period tend to increase between 1 and 2 kilos of weight if there were no problems with nausea. This weight gain does not correspond entirely to the fetus, but also the placenta, the amniotic fluid, the uterus, breasts and increased blood volume.
PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGES
During the first trimester of pregnancy is common that women also experience mood swings. This is probably due to hormonal changes necessary for the body to maintain the pregnancy.
Some women may have mixed feelings about motherhood, even when the pregnancy is planned, and raises are prepared for motherhood. The state of insecurity and anxiety are alternated with states of euphoria.
These concerns are fading as the months go and the woman adapts to her new state.