Psychological Pregnancy

Psychological Pregnancy



Craving and wanting to be a mother, can cause a woman suffers a psychological pregnancy, it is a condition in which a woman believes she is pregnant without being pregnant, something logical bearing in mind that you may experience many of the early symptoms of pregnancy. Generally, psychological or pseudocyesis pregnancy affects women, although men can also experience symptoms.

In a psychological pregnancy psychological factors involved, ie, mental processes, and neuroendocrine factors, processes in which the nervous system interacts with the endocrine system by altering some hormonal mechanisms or mechanisms that regulate behavior, mood, etc..

With regard to psychological factors, are generally the primary responsibility of having a psychological pregnancy, and is also responsible for various psychiatric disorders called somatoform disorders. Patients suffering from this disorder suffer from physical symptoms such as pain, nausea, dizziness, etc., Without any justification that organic causes.

Having trouble conceiving, suffer infertility or sterility and also with all the forces want to be a mother, could lead to a psychological pregnancy. With regard to neuroendocrine factors, as we said before, influence the activity of hormones and we know that hormones play an important role in pregnancy. There is a hormonal dysfunction that causes the loss of ovulation or anovulation, menstrual flow also disappears, and the high level of progesterone hormone and prolactin (a hormone that stimulates milk production) originate lactation, a period which usually begins after birth and increases milk production.

In a psychological pregnancy for nine months, the body is altered in the same way that if there really pregnant, abdomen progressively increases resulting from increased volume of the uterus, but unlike a real pregnancy, there is no a blurring of the navel. Was suffering from dizziness, nausea and even weight gain, she goes so far as to perceive fetal movements.

Must be said that the numbers of women suffering psychological pregnancy has declined as have advanced techniques of fertilization and assisted reproduction techniques that have allowed many women motherhood design problems.