What are the reactions to prenatal fear?

Pregnant women should not only pay attention to supplementing their body's nutrition, but also pay attention to regulating their mood and emotions. Because a very small number of pregnant women cannot accept the huge changes in their bodies during pregnancy and thus suffer from depression. At the same time, since pregnant women have to go through great pain during the delivery process, many pregnant women who are afraid of pain also suffer from prenatal phobia before delivery. What are the common symptoms for pregnant women with prenatal fear?

Symptoms of prenatal fear

Whether it is a first-time mother or a multiparous mother, every expectant mother will have more or less anxiety, which is normal. Tokophobia is excessive anxiety, which as a pregnancy disease affects the health of pregnant women and fetuses.

Tokophobia is a nonspecific reaction of a woman to the effects of various factors in the internal and external environment on her body. Some expectant mothers may have this kind of psychological stress reaction from the early stage of pregnancy, which manifests as:

1. Irritability and anxiety

The main reason is that expectant mothers are not adapted to the normal physical changes during pregnancy. Expectant mothers are not used to some physical and physiological changes in their bodies after pregnancy, such as vomiting and discomfort caused by pregnancy reactions in the early stages of pregnancy, and discomfort caused by loss of mobility and edema in the hands and feet in the late stages of pregnancy. These normal pregnancy symptoms make expectant mothers feel irritable and anxious, and thus have a fear of childbirth.

2. Depression

It manifests as expectant mothers being overly concerned about pregnancy and having a negative attitude towards pregnancy. Generally, first-time mothers pay close attention to the pregnancy process and worry too much about the condition of the fetus. They are prone to often worry about an unsmooth pregnancy and abnormal fetal development. They focus on various negative factors and thus show a negative attitude towards childbirth.

Worrying about whether to have a boy or a girl: Worrying about the gender of the fetus, worrying about the complications of delivery, worrying that the fetus will not survive, worrying about no one to take care of it after delivery and the financial expenses, etc.

3. Fear

In the final stage of pregnancy, pregnant women often show strong psychological dependence and hope to seek protection and attract attention from others. This reaction is not being squeamish, but a normal psychological reaction.

Fear of pain during childbirth and an uncomfortable delivery process: Worrying about an uncomfortable delivery, fear of surgery, fear of uterine contractions during childbirth, and fear of embarrassing things that may happen during childbirth.

Complications are more likely to occur during pregnancy and delivery is often more dangerous. Mothers who suffer from prenatal complications such as pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome, pregnancy-related heart disease, etc., have health problems of their own and are also afraid of harming the fetus, which creates psychological pressure on themselves.

4. Insomnia

When I was waiting for the birth of my baby at home, I had a lot of worries during the day and had difficulty falling asleep at night. When waiting to give birth in the hospital, you may suffer from insomnia because you are not used to the hospital's delivery environment, or because you hear the painful groans or howls of the women in labor around you, or because of the medical staff's cold faces or verbal stimulation, such as "Giving birth is always painful? Only you can't bear it!"

Tip: There is a reason why some medical staff are impatient. If every pregnant woman they meet is emotionally stable and cooperates with their work, their mood will not be so bad.

5. Bad temper

This is caused by concerns that their careers will be affected or the family's financial pressure will increase after the birth of their child. Pregnant women may chatter incessantly, which is a reasonable channel for venting negative emotions.