For most women, the pregnancy is a life time of happiness, one of the most sense, but in fact there are nearly 10% of women, during pregnancy will feel varying degrees of depression. Perhaps it is precisely because people are convinced that pregnancy is a blessing for a woman, so even many gynecologists have neglected for pregnancy diagnosis and treatment of depression, but simply the frustration of pregnant women, depression, reduced to a momentary mood disorders. In fact, if not given adequate attention and timely treatment of depression during pregnancy also have a considerable risk that it will take care of themselves and the fetus of pregnant women is affected, and to bring about adverse consequences for mother and child.

Symptoms of depression during pregnancy

If the period of time (at least two weeks) there are 4 kinds or more of the following symptoms, then you may have been suffering from depression during pregnancy. If one or both of a recent particularly troubling you, you must draw your attention.

- Can not concentrate

- Anxiety

- Extreme irritability

- Sleep well

- Very easy fatigue, or persistent fatigue

- Constantly want to eat something, or there is no loss of appetite

- Interested in nothing, always mention the spirit can not afford to

- Continued depressed, cry

- Mood swings and large, moody

Leading causes of depression during pregnancy

The body during pregnancy, significant changes in hormone levels can affect brain neurotransmitters regulate mood changes. You probably six to 10 weeks of pregnancy when the initial experience of these changes, and then when your body starts to prepare for the birth, it will once again experience these changes. Hormones will make you feel anxious more easily than ever before, so when you start to feel more anxiety and depression than ever before, we should pay attention to remind ourselves that these are normal reactions during pregnancy in order to avoid this pain and disappointment into unable to extricate themselves.

Others may easily lead to depression during pregnancy incentives include: a family or personal history of depression. If your family or you yourself have had depression history, then when you are pregnant, the more prone to depression during pregnancy; interpersonal problems, which is also suffering of women during pregnancy and postpartum depression pregnancy one of the main If you and your spouse tension, and is no longer on their own solve the problem, it is best to look for relevant experts for consultation. Many people think that if the child is born, the couple’s problems will be solved, in fact, the arrival of a child, will only increase the pressure on the relationship between husband and wife, and only through consultation, to find the appropriate way to solve the problem of the active means.

Susceptible group of pregnant women with depression during pregnancy

Pregnancy itself has a certain risk pregnant women

Some cases, more complicated or dangerous, requiring long-term bed rest home, or conducted a number of genetic tests during pregnancy (such as twins or multiple births), pregnant women would much mental and physical torture. On the one hand they have to endure the physical pain of pregnancy, on the other but also fear for their results, so this type of pregnant women more vulnerable to depression during pregnancy distress should be special attention.

Pregnancy by means of drugs to pregnant women

If the past trend of infertility, and by taking drugs to make themselves pregnant in the medication process, you must spend months and years to endure because of drug side-effects caused by endocrine disharmony, and will lead to emotional instability, once pregnant, they will face hardships for the event were to lose the fetus concerns and fears, this crowd is also vulnerable to suffer from depression during pregnancy.

Pregnant women who had abortions experience

If you have experienced in the past have had abortions, then the pregnancy may be safe for the fetus to worry about. If the last pregnancy, abortion and this soon afterwards, or have multiple abortions in a year’s experience, then your body may not completely recover from the last abortion, in the mental and physical are relatively fragile, and thus more likely to develop during pregnancy depression.

There are significant changes in the life of pregnant women

Are you in order to better meet the new baby’s arrival for a larger homes? Because of pregnancy and other reasons or if you experience difficulties at work? During pregnancy, any major life changes such as moving, divorce, unemployment, loss of friends and relatives and so likely to make you into a depression during pregnancy.

Have had bitter experience of pregnant women

Pregnancy may trigger previously experienced by pregnant women for the emotional, sexual, physical or verbal abuse of the painful memories. At this point the changes in your body is not you will have control of, such physical changes caused by a sense of loss of control, it may make you recall when they felt ill-treatment out of control, and make you long depression not Huan.

How to deal with depression during pregnancy?

As far as possible to relax himself

That you want to give up the baby was born before that all the RBI thoughtful ideas. You might think you should lose no time to find a good post-natal health care workers, to the room to a clean-up, or on maternity leave before the end of the work at hand done, but in fact you are listed in front of a lot of things to do should be added solemnly, as it is to treat themselves. Once a child is born, you will never not have enough time to take care of your own. So when you when you were pregnant should try to look at novels, eating delicious breakfast in bed, to walk in the woods, try to do more things that will make you feel happy. Take good care of yourself, nurture a healthy and lovely baby is the most important prerequisite.

Lot of communication with your spouse

Ensure that sufficient time each day and spouses together, and maintain intimate exchanges. If the body permits, can be considered along with vacation, you can do to make your relationship had been reinforced, so that when a child was born, you will have strong backing, you can rest assured that rely on.

Express your feelings

To your wife and friends tell you the fear and worry for the future, easily and clearly tell them how you feel, when you are in an extraordinary period of pregnancy, you need to love and friends, emotional support, but only when they understand the all your feelings, they can give you what you want comfort.

And pressure to the fight against

Do not let your life is full of frustration. From time to time to adjust your mood. Take a deep breath, full of sleep, exercise, attention to nutrition. If you still feel anxious from time to time, you can consider participating in exercise during pregnancy yoga classes, this ancient and moderate exercise can help pregnant women maintain a stable mind.

Active treatment

If you have made efforts, but the situation is still not improve, or you find yourself are not competent enough to work and live day to day, or have the urge to hurt themselves and others, then you should immediately seek medical help, under the guidance of a doctor taking a number of right itself and the fetus does not have side effects of antidepressant drugs can also ask your doctor to recommend you a medical expert in this area, or psychiatric treatment experts, so as to avoid the delay condition to give themselves and their negative consequences for the fetus. Some pregnant women afraid to see a psychiatrist, arguing that it would itself with mental illness Guashang Gou, in fact, do not worry, you can rationally and objectively, as it is to ensure that you and the baby taken to a health and safety measures necessary.