Causes of Anxiety & Stress During Pregnancy

Anxiety during pregnancy is a normal symptom for many women, which is just a worry about pregnancy and coping with the pain. Anxiety basically refers to prevailing mental stress with no identifiable cause. Most of us experience anxiety levels at different times in our life, which is absolutely normal. People with anxiety turmoil suffer with excessive and unrealistic anxiety in almost every aspects of life.

They may even panic about carrying out daily activities, like using public transport, shopping and remain nervous most of the time. Unlike the rest of population who experiences non-clinical anxiety, most pregnant ladies experiences general anxiety during pregnancy.

A little amount of anxiety is inevitable during pregnancy, but high levels of strain can create an adverse effect on mother as well as the baby. It is also seen that high levels of anxiety can affect children for long even after their birth. It is a known fact that a woman’s emotions can affect the health and growth of her unborn baby. Pregnancy and anxiety can increase the chances of preterm delivery, miscarriage and unhealthy baby.

Recent survey shows that there is a strong connection between early levels of maternal anxiety and a child's propensity to ADHD syndrome after a few years. Feeling tired at most of the times, getting too much concerned about the bodily changes, worrying about the side effects after baby is born are some of the normal concerns.

Here are some of the factors that can cause the anxiety and stress:;-

• Excessive or unrealistic worry
• Unrealistic fears concerning situations or objects
• Tension and fatigue
• High breathing rate or pulsation
If you wish to overcome the levels of anxiety, then it is important to keep yourself relaxed. If you are an anxious person by nature or if it  has emerged due to pregnancy, then chances are that you do not know how to release tension and refrain yourself from anxiety.
Many symptoms of anxiety can be cured by practicing the relaxation techniques. Besides reducing the anxiety levels, it will help you in relieving muscular tension and will also improve the feeling of wellbeing.

Deep relaxation absorbs quite a few physiological changes that are as follows:

• Reduced heart rate
• reduced blood pressure
• Reduced respiration rate
• Relieve from muscle tension
• Reduction in oxygen consumption and metabolic rate

Anxiety during pregnancy can be significantly reduced by habitual practice of relaxation techniques for approximately half an hour daily.
During birth and pregnancy, feeling at ease is utmost important to ensure safe and healthy growth of your baby. Fears surrounding labor pain and birth can also be chased away with the frequent use of relaxation techniques. You can find many birth preparation CDs that mainly focuses on relaxation methods for birth and labor.