Effects of depression during pregnancy on the fetus

Female friends are more likely to suffer from gestational depression during pregnancy, mainly because the psychological pressure during pregnancy is relatively high, which may cause women to feel depressed. I hope that Nan Fang can take women out for walks more often to relax their mood, which will be good for the development of the fetus. If depression occurs during pregnancy, it can lead to fetal maldevelopment and cleft lip and other symptoms. I hope mothers can pay attention to this.

1. What are the symptoms of depression during pregnancy?

According to research, women with depression may feel low for two weeks or more. Other possible signs include:

1. Laziness: Feeling suddenly tired and weak, consciously lazy and incompetent, and even too lazy to cope with daily life, simple work or housework.

2. Dull: Reduced movements, stiff actions, slow thinking, decreased memory and concentration, and a significant decrease in comprehension.

3. Change: Obvious change in personality.

4. Worry: Melancholy, pessimism, dejection, lack of confidence and vitality, and a feeling of having lost all hope. Feeling depressed and miserable, lacking interest in anything outside, and feeling physically unwell.

5. Worry : excessive thinking, wild imagination, restlessness, self-blame, inferiority complex, or insomnia for weeks or even months.

2. The impact of depression during pregnancy on the fetus

Emotional fluctuations in pregnant women can have a great impact on the fetus. According to clinical studies, if pregnant women are overly anxious during the 4th to 10th week of pregnancy, it may cause lip deformities and cleft palate in the fetus. Sudden changes in the mental state of pregnant women, such as excessive mental tension caused by fright, fear, sadness or other reasons, can disrupt the balance between the cerebral cortex and internal organs, cause circulatory system disorders, lead to early placental detachment, and even cause fetal death.

In addition, when you are emotionally uneasy, the number of fetal movements will be three times more than usual, or even up to ten times normal. If the fetus is uneasy for a long time and consumes too much physical energy, it will often be about one kilogram lighter than the average baby at birth. If a pregnant woman cannot calm down within three weeks after a quarrel with someone, the number of fetal movements will double than before. If the emotions are suppressed for a long time during pregnancy, the baby will often have physical disorders after birth, especially the digestive system function is particularly prone to disorder. Moreover, the mother's emotional fluctuations will stimulate the nervous system to secrete different hormones, which enter the fetus through the blood, thus affecting the baby's physical and mental health.