Pregnancy mood swings
Mood swings during pregnancy are rapid, uncharacteristic changes in mood, often with unexplained crying and anxiety attacks.
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Mood swings during pregnancy are rapid, uncharacteristic changes in mood, often with unexplained crying and anxiety attacks. They are common from conception onwards, but are especially likely to happen in the third trimester.
Changes in your hormone balance during pregnancy have a depressant effect on the nervous system, causing symptoms similar to those you may have before a period. Identity crises and the way you feel about the changes in your body may have a profound effect on you when you're pregnant, and mixed feelings about pregnancy and parenthood can cause sudden shifts in your moods.
These are natural feelings and moments of depression, anxiety, and confusion are common even in the easiest of pregnancies. Trying to analyze such feelings may only serve to prolong them. (See also Emotional changes.)
Posted 04.05.2011
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