Pregnancy can bring episodes of mood swings, it makes life difficult for 10-15% of pregnant women. There is an undeniable link between hyperemesis gravidarum, that is excessive vomiting during pregnancy and the pregnancy itself.
Some women have expressed during their pregnancy complicated by hyperemesis, dehydration, lack of energy, that they had a very stressful home life, they have reported having relationship problems stressing their existence. For some women the pregnancy has been the product of rape, or an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. At some point in their pregnancy some women have stated that because of the constant malaise and extreme hyperemesis and its effects they wish to die, simply because they can not see the end.
Truly this turns out to be a very complicated matter, problem that it takes a multidisciplinary approach to fight on behalf of the depressed pregnant person. Hospitalization is unavoidable, adding furthermore to the depression. Some women go as far as wanting to end their pregnancy, these creates a new set of problems, conflicts, ethical dilemmas, spreading the stress not only between the pregnant woman and her partner, but to all those involved in her care. You have to put yourself in the pregnant woman’s shoes, to get a glimpse of understanding, before you make any kind of judgment. What would you do? Very difficult to say.
