A preganant woman. [Photo/sde]
From mean commentaries, criticism from friends and relatives, unplanned pregnancies, some expectant women have seen the worst part of it.
Parenthood is a natural thing. And in as much as pregnancy should be one of the happiest moment for the expectant woman, sometimes it is never so. Take for instance a girl who gets pregnant at the age of 20. The mother, might not accept that at her early 40s, she would be a grandmother.
For young mothers, counseling is important, to help cope with the situation and in married women, mostly emotional support from family and their partner is helpful and unintended pregnancy comes with a lot of shame and guilt and one thing it does is that it causes distress in a woman.
Many women will be angry, depressed and in extreme situations, they can be suicidal. Many women with these psychological effects are those from certain moral and religious backgrounds. They feel they have gone against what is expected of them.
Others are from humble backgrounds who feel they have let their families down. The society should be kind and not judge expectant women, whether you are a relative, a friend or even a stranger.