Contents:
- Medical Video: Joyce Meyer — Understanding Your Emotions — FULL Sermon 2017
- How can pregnant hormones affect emotions?
- What are the emotional changes that often occur due to pregnant hormones?
- How do you deal with emotional changes during pregnancy?
Medical Video: Joyce Meyer — Understanding Your Emotions — FULL Sermon 2017
In addition to affecting women physically, pregnancy can also affect women mentally. Many of you may have found the person closest to you who is pregnant to experience emotional changes. Pregnant women reason this happens because of changes in the hormones pregnant in their bodies.
Yes, changes in emotions during pregnancy are mostly associated with hormonal changes in the body of a pregnant woman. How did this happen?
How can pregnant hormones affect emotions?
Hormones are chemicals that flow in the blood and have many functions for the body. During pregnancy, these hormones undergo changes to support the body's work during pregnancy until delivery. Some pregnant hormones that are very important during pregnancy are estrogen, progesterone, oxytocin, HCG, and prolactin. These pregnant hormones have their respective roles in your body.
In addition, these hormonal changes can also affect your emotions. Increased production of the hormones estrogen and progesterone in early pregnancy, for example, can have an impact on the brain's ability to regulate your emotions.
Changes in hormones in a pregnant woman's body can affect the level of neurotransmitters, namely brain chemicals, which are one of the functions of regulating emotions. This makes pregnant women sometimes feel sad, want to cry, and easily offended. At other times, pregnant women can suddenly feel happy and happy. Your mood and emotional changes during pregnancy may be out of control.
What are the emotional changes that often occur due to pregnant hormones?
Usually pregnant women will experience emotional changes early in pregnancy, around six to ten weeks of gestation. Your emotions may feel better after the first three months of pregnancy. Furthermore, changes in emotions can also be seen again in the third trimester of pregnancy, when the body prepares the birth of your baby.
Every pregnant woman may feel different emotional changes. Starting from changes in emotions that are normal, can be handled alone, need help from others, to feel depressed or anxious. This depends on how much the hormone increases and how you respond to these emotional changes. Other factors can also affect your emotions during pregnancy, such as stress and fatigue. Emotions that are handled well may not appear excessive.
How do you deal with emotional changes during pregnancy?
Emotional changes are normal for every pregnant woman. However, excessive emotions are also not good for your mental health. For that, as much as possible you have to handle your own emotions and maybe you need the help of others, your husband for example.
Some ways you can deal with your emotional changes during pregnancy are:
- Don't worry too much, just relax. Pregnancy may make you worry about having to do this and that so that a healthy baby, must prepare this and that before the baby is born. However, don't worry about all this. Live your pregnancy lightly and happily.
- Do things that you like. Know what you need to make you feel more comfortable. Listen to your body and mind well. Sometimes, you need time alone to do things that you like and make you calm.
- Get enough sleep. Getting enough rest can have a good impact on your emotional state. Make sure you sleep at least 8 hours per night and get a good night's sleep.
- Eat nutritious foods. Fulfillment of important nutrients is also needed during pregnancy to maintain your mental health. Some foods can help improve your mood and emotions.
- Find support from the closest person. Husband support is certainly very needed by the wife during pregnancy. Make sure you spend a lot of time with your husband to talk about your situation, so your husband can better understand you. Apart from husbands, support from other people nearby can also help, such as mother, father, father-in-law, and friends. You can talk to them about your emotional changes or other problems, so you don't carry your own burden.
