Stress and Anxiety During Pregnancy

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.5 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We all deal with some level of stress daily. Pregnancy can be a time of additional stress as you are experiencing many physical changes and preparing for birth and a new baby. In a sense, everything you expose yourself to during pregnancy also can affect your baby, and stress is not an exception. Stress during pregnancy can affect your baby in many ways. Physiological changes can impact your developing baby. Stress that puts you at a higher risk for some complications can affect the health and development of your baby. How you and your baby are affected by stress, both in the short and long term, is a function of your stress response and your ability to turn it off. The good news is that understanding your stress response and learning about evidence-based tools to manage stress will minimize your and your baby's adverse effects and positively impact your mental health.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton.
0:10.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. In today's episode, we're talking
0:16.6	about stress and anxiety in pregnancy. We all deal with some level of stress on a daily basis. When you're pregnant that can be a
0:25.4	period of additional stress. You're going through a lot of physical changes, you're preparing
0:30.8	for birth and a new baby.
0:33.0	In a sense, everything that you expose yourself to during pregnancy
0:37.0	can also affect your baby.
0:39.0	And stress is not an exception.
0:41.0	Physiological changes that happen when you're under stress can impact your developing baby.
0:46.8	Stress that puts you at a higher risk for some complications can also affect your baby's health and development.
0:54.0	How you and your baby are affected by stress,
0:56.7	both in the short and the long term,
0:59.1	is a function of your stress response
1:01.3	and your ability to turn it off. The good news is that
1:04.9	understanding your stress response and learning about evidence-based tools to
1:09.4	manage stress can minimize the adverse effects for you and your baby and it's going to
1:15.2	positively impact your mental health. You can find the complete article and all of
1:20.8	the resources for this episode at pregnancy podcast.com slash stress.
1:28.6	Right now you are listening to the public feed of the podcast.
1:32.2	There are over 200 episodes that are exclusively
1:35.7	available to pregnancy podcast premium members in the private podcast feed.
1:40.4	And right now you can get a free copy of the Your Birth Plan book and
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