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Obstetrics
Psychologic effects of pregnancy examined
June 28th, 2004
Being pregnant is an opportunity to abandon the effort to conform to Western idealizations of body forms, a study from England suggests. S. Warren and colleagues at the University of Portsmouth, U.K., collected data "from interviews with mothers and one mother-to-be [that] characterized pregnancy as a time during which a woman has little jurisdiction over her body. "Some respondents found this loss of control discomfiting and unpleasant, but others told of how much they had enjoyed their pregnancies for the same reason," the study authors said. "On this basis, we suggest that pregnancy may represent a specific body episode which...
Source: Mental Health Weekly Digest (2004-06-28)
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