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Pregnancy Can Be Stressful

Managing Stress during Pregnancy

By Kelly Burgess

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(HarperSanFrancisco, 1995), also suggests the following strategies for coping with stress:

  • Awareness. Understand where your stress is coming from and decide you want to change your reaction. Understand you have to let go because you have a larger purpose – your baby.
  • Create a pregnancy journal. Use it to explore your intentions as a mother. What kind of a mother do you want to be? What kind of family do you want to build? What kind of rituals do you want to observe? Along with buying diapers and putting up a layette, this is a good time to look deeply into your own soul and decide what direction you'd like motherhood to take.
  • Explore your dreams. Pregnant women tend to dream vividly. Examine the ways in which your dreams are related to the new soul inside you.
  • Embrace your symptoms. So you're tired and you need to slow down. Do it, don't fight it.
  • Be creative. Many women bemoan the fact they're more emotional and sensitive during pregnancy. Instead, explore that sensitivity and use it to bring out your creative side.
  • Let go. You don't have any real control over what is going on in your body, so listen to your body and let it fulfill its natural purpose.


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