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Depression is a disorder in your mood that makes you feel hopeless and sad. This feeling can stay for weeks or months and it tends to affect every activity of your life.

Pregnant women suffer from postpartum depression. Even if she feels that her depression is under control but the hormonal changes that are happening in her body could cause the depression to increase.

Depression is hard to cope up with and it becomes extremely difficult to feel this way when you are pregnant. Pregnancy is supposed to be the time when you are the happiest, but depression during pregnancy makes the entire experience the least joyful for you.

Depression should not be taken lightly

Depression is a form of illness and it is something that is common among pregnant women. Most of the women feel depressed when they are pregnant. Clinical treatments are necessary to help pregnant women cope with depression. For some, the feeling goes away after a few months or within a year.

If you feel depressed it is important that you seek immediate medical help. When you are pregnant your physical, as well as emotional health, should be in order.

What is Complications Of Multiple Pregnancy?

It is exciting to know that a woman is pregnant with more than one baby. But with multiple babies, the risk of complications also increases. The common problems that come with multiple pregnancies are listed below. The problems with multiple pregnancy

Preterm labour

As per statistics, 3 in 5 twins are born prematurely. Nearly all the higher multiples are born before achieving 37 weeks. The risk of early birth is higher with the increase in the number of fetus. In most cases, twins are born preterm in 36 weeks and triplets are born around the 32 weeks. The preterm labor is caused because of a condition is known as PPROM or preterm premature rupture of the membrane.

Low birth weight

Pseudocyesis or false pregnancy is also known by many as phantom pregnancy. The woman feels that they are pregnant seeing the false symptoms like gain in weight, morning sickness, growing belly and backache. These are the common signs that you see when you are pregnant, just that here the woman is not pregnant.

Women tend to know that they are pregnant even when they do not take a test. This is because of her intuition. In phantom pregnancy, the woman’s body tells her that she is pregnant even though she is not.

Couvade is the medical term that is when a man feels that his partner is having to deal with the pregnancy symptoms even though she is not actually pregnant.

Causes of Pseudocyesis?

Pseudocyesis is a rare thing in men and women and doctors are still trying to find out the reason for the same. Some think that the condition is physical and many feel that this is caused because of psychological reasons.

Pseudocyesis is also believed to be caused because of a trauma which could be either a mental or a physical trauma. It could also be caused because of some physical imbalance. This could be because of a loss of a child, miscarriage or infertility.

Other causes could be ovarian tumors and some imbalance in the brain that makes the body think that the woman is pregnant.