Aspects of Positive Feeling of Pregnancy

Overview

Objective:
To analyze the relation of positive feeling in pregnancy with intentional conception, toanalyze the relation between feeling the pregnancy by the women and her partner.Type of study: A questionnaire investigation in a representative cohort.Setting: Ward for Preventive and Social Pediatrics, Medical Faculty, Masaryk University, Brno.Methods: Frequency analysis, Chi-square, F-test.Results: Positive feeling in pregnancy should not be simply associated with intentional pregnancy.In spite of the fact that planned pregnancies are mostly accepted positively, it does notnecessarily mean that opposite is true in cases of unplanned gravidity. In the course of pregnancythe positive feeling is growing and the number of unhappy women decreases to a minimum. Inwomen who positively accepted their pregnancy, we found out frequent support by their partner.It is of interest that the attitude of the partner in some cases proved to be more favorable thanthat of the woman herself.Conclusion: Results of this investigation revealed usefulness of differentiating between intentionalconception and its emotional experience, since unplanned pregnancy does not necessarilyfollow to negative feeling from the position of the woman. On the contrary, partners of the pregnantwomen accepted pregnancy favorably in most cases.

Key words:
wanted, unwanted, planned pregnancy