How To Prevent, Reduce And Relieve Stress During Pregnancy?

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Stress during pregnancy

Pregnancy is something that is generally seen as a beautiful thing and awaited by each parents. However, although pregnancy is a joy, it does not rule out the possibility of pregnant women to experience stress.

Stress during pregnancy is one of the most common problems faced by women. Whereas, stress affects of developing fetus in the womb. Then, how to relieve stress during pregnancy?

Women who are in pregnant are highly recommended to avoid stress. This is so that the health of a mother and fetus of the baby stay awake. There are many things that can cause stress during pregnancy, either because the mother's own physical or due to the influence of his mind.

Causes of stress during pregnancy

Stress is a condition that can affect the state of tension rather than emotions, thought processes and conditions of a person. Excessive stress can threaten a person's ability to deal with their own environment and it will also apply to a pregnant woman.

Stress during pregnancy is often caused by financial problems, relationships, and other problems. According to the U.S. study, the stress should be avoided by pregnant women, because it can cause prolonged impact on the baby that to be born.

According to Drs. Rosalind Wright of Harvard Medical School in Boston, the stress on the mother, either because of financial or relationship problems can affect the development of the child's immune system. Children whose mothers experienced stress during pregnancy, will be susceptible to allergies and asthma.

Wrigth and his colleagues found that maternal stress during pregnancy is the most often give birth to infants with high levels of immunoglobulin E, or IgE, which is an immune system.

Another thing that causes women to stress during pregnancy:

1). Excessive Anxiety

2). Unexpected delivery process

3). Unexpected Physical changes

Stress effects during pregnancy

Stress during pregnancy will greatly affects the health of the baby in the womb. Therefore, keeping the body healthy and avoid stress is very important for the health of the baby and the mother. 

The following are some things that can be caused by stress, especially for pregnant women:

Stress that afflicts pregnant women will also be able to increase the risk of miscarriage (abortion) as compared to mothers with lower levels of cause of stress and has the better stress control system when faced with stressful precipitating factors in pregnant women.

Baby's immune system will be reduced. Based on journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, that pregnant women often experience excessive anxiety and stress are able to weaken the immune system when the baby is six months old.

According Medicaldaily.com, that stress during pregnancy will increase the risk of the baby developing allergies. When stressed, the fetus will absorb the hormone cortisol which produced by the body when the mother was pregnant. And infants with high cortisol levels will be more likely to have a greater risk of suffering from allergies than infants with low cortisol levels.

Tips to prevent, reduce and relieve stress during pregnancy

There are some tips and ways to relieve stress for pregnant women. Some things that can be done by pregnant women is as follows which is a part in order to prevent maternal stress are:

• Enrich the knowledge of how to maintain the health of the mother and fetus. 

• Take enough time to rest. avoid excessive fatigue that causes pain in the body. This could be a trigger of stress.

• Take time to pamper yourself and make you feel happy. You can go on vacation to the beach and looking for a new atmosphere that you think is comfortable. You can also watch TV with your husband and others.

• Getting the full support of  your husband and extended family also in the running period of nine months would contain provide meaningful value to the wife.  This can be one way in order to cope with emotional stress in pregnancy.

• If you encounter problems, Communicate with your husband immediately or the consult a doctor sooner.

• Create a comfort atmosphere during the pregnancy with your husband. This is the cornerstone of maintaining domestic harmony and prevent stress.

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