Emotions
The following list includes common causes of depression, guilt, anxiety and/or frustration. Knowing these can help you and your family/friends cope during this time.
- Lack of understanding & support from others
- Inability to take vitamins, or eat healthy
- Taking medications perceived as risky
- Missing out on the "fun" of being pregnant
- Loss of a "normal" pregnancy
- Lost work days or quitting work
- Putting life "on hold" for many months
- Longing to eat and drink normally
- Money expended on care and support
- Lack of energy and severe fatigue
- Irritability and lack of enjoyment in life
- Memory loss or inability to think clearly
- Burden of care and time on others
- Lack of socialization (i.e. isolation)
- Inability to prepare for birth/arrival of baby
- Inability to care for family and home
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- Wanting to terminate the pregnancy to end the misery
- Other's perception that HG is only in your mind
- Loss of hope that nausea will cease before birth
- Fear of painful treatments or being force fed
- Reluctance of doctors to treat due to cost or liability
- Weight loss or inadequate gain for gestational
age of baby
- Fluctuating emotions due to hormones and illness
- Sense of inadequacy and failure at being unable
to cope or function
- Fear of harming baby or more difficult birth
- Fear of morbidity or death
- Difficulty bonding with baby
- Lack of energy and socialization for kids
- Lack of excitement about baby's arrival
- Dreading the prolonged recovery time
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Typical Triggers of Nausea/Vomiting »
Updated on:
Aug. 09, 2006 |
