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| Emotions
influence our general health, body, weight, relationships with other and
all other facets of our lives. Pregnancy is a time of intense emotions
for a woman, probably more so than at any other time in her life. Dad also
is feeling more intense emotions, perhaps not hormone-helped like Mom,
but still present. How will it feel to be parents, perhaps again? What
will being pregnant be like? You will receive more advice than you have
ever received in your life. Even strangers will come up to you and tell
you how to feel. How will your parents, friends, co-workers and children
feel about this pregnancy? All of this depends on their past experiences
and whether or not they were good or bad. What you need to understand is
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body will change and become different. How this is perceived and reacted
to by Dad and Mom both will affect your interest in the pregnancy and each
other. You need to know, before beginning, that pregnancy adds stress to
any relationship. You need to trust each other, communicate your feelings,
including your fears, and learn to compromise. No one ever said a pregnant
woman was not emotional. Hormones have something to do with it, but even
more important is the inner feelings Mom has about herself and her partner.
Body image can change sexuality and Dad needs to be supportive of these
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in sex can also be altered during pregnancy. Elizabeth Bing and Libby Coleman
in Making Love During Pregnancy found four patterns: 1. It increased
throughout pregnancy 2. It increased in the middle trimester but decreased
during the last trimester 3. It stayed the same 4. It decreased throughout
pregnancy. In other words, we don't know until it happens. But with understanding
and a supportive relationship, both Mom and Dad will be able to communicate
their feelings. |
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