Contents:
- Medical Video: Baby sleep training: Cry it out
- Impact of pregnant women crying in the womb
- Does the emotional turmoil of a pregnant woman have a major impact on the baby until she is born and grows up?
- So can pregnant women cry?
Medical Video: Baby sleep training: Cry it out
Everyone certainly craves a pregnancy that is smooth and full of happiness. However, due to hormonal changes and various psychological stresses faced, at one point pregnant women can be sad too. Then what will happen if pregnant women cry? Is it true that the fetus in the womb can feel the sadness of his mother? Find out the scientific answer below.
Impact of pregnant women crying in the womb
Food that mothers eat when pregnant can directly affect the fetus. Why so? Nutrients that mothers get when eating will be distributed to the fetus through the umbilical cord.
Then does the mother's emotions also affect the condition of the fetus? A study from the Association for Psychological Science found that a fetus aged six months can feel the effects of emotions felt by mothers during pregnancy.
Crying is a form of emotional overflow. This activity can be caused by various things. For example, touched when happy to sad when stress comes. In other words, crying is something that usually happens to anyone and can happen to pregnant women.
Experts argue that stress that occurs once and twice is normal and will not have an effect on the fetus it contains. However, emotions that occur repeatedly, continuously, and prolonged can actually affect the baby they contain. Because, if pregnant women cry constantly, you can experience severe stress, anxiety symptoms, to depression.
When a pregnant woman is stressed, the body will produce stress hormones. This hormone will also flow to the fetus in the womb through the placenta. The more often stress, the more stress hormones are produced and the more hormones that will flow to the fetus.
Fetuses that continue to get stress hormones can then experience chronic stress. In fact, development in the uterus is a very important period because the development of the nervous system occurs. Unbalanced hormones can interfere with this development process.
In addition to directly impacting the stress hormones that are passed on to the baby through the umbilical cord, pregnant women who experience depression can also affect the fetus indirectly. In the Baby Center, it is said that mothers who are depressed will experience various kinds of symptoms that are quite risky for the health of the baby and the womb. For example, mothers have difficulty sleeping, decreased appetite, difficulty concentrating, and feel weak like running out of energy.
Does the emotional turmoil of a pregnant woman have a major impact on the baby until she is born and grows up?
A study from the University of California-Irvine and the Association for Psychological Science explained the possible effects if mothers cry during pregnancy. In the long run, babies born to mothers who, while pregnant, often cry due to depression can experience nerve problems, to psychological disorders.
In addition, children born to mothers who often feel anxious during pregnancy will also have different structures in their brains. However, this study still needs to be continued to look at the long-term effects of differences in brain structure.
Other research in Clinical Obstetrics Gynecology shows that prolonged stress during pregnancy can also increase the risk of autism, depression, and cognitive impairment in children.
So can pregnant women cry?
As explained above, emotional overflowing such as crying during pregnancy if only one or two times is a natural thing to happen.
What needs to be considered is negative emotions such as stress and prolonged depression. If you or your wife experience this, immediately consult a doctor. Another way to vent emotions besides crying is to do a variety of positive activities, such as exercising. You can try participating in pregnancy, swimming, or yoga when you're upset.
