Being Emotionally Supportive During Pregnancy

Knowing what to expect when you are expecting is not confined to just the female partner in a relationship. As a man, you have to step up and stand up to the occasion by being supportive during the pregnancy phase. Your partner has to carry the entire weight of pregnancy alone, the least you can do is support her in all means possible during pregnancy. The most important support your partner would expect from you would be emotional support.

Being emotionally available and supportive during pregnancy helps her to deal with pregnancy in a better way. By providing emotional support during pregnancy to your partner, you would be showing her how much you care and helps in strengthening the bond between you. It even helps the child growing inside when the mother feels secured and safe with all the emotional support she gets from the father. It is important to be sensitive towards her and deal with situations with care and love.

Due to lots of hormonal changes during pregnancy, your emotional support is ever more critical in balancing her feelings and having a calm effect on her erratic mood swings. By being there for her and the child by providing the emotional support helps in connecting with them better. Pregnancy takes a toll on the carrying mother by putting lots of stress. Not only does the stress adversely impact the mother, stress hormones released by pregnant mothers can make their child more reactive to stress after birth.

Communication
To be emotionally supportive during pregnancy, you must start to communicate with her more than ever now. Bond with her on an intimate level, know what she is going through during different stages of pregnancy and try to provide any form of support she expects from you. Get her to be more expressive and open about her emotions.

Talking to the baby
This sounds crazy to most people, but talking to the baby through her stomach has a lot of positive effect on your partner and the baby too. It bonds all the three together more intimately. It shows you care for both the mother and the child. It even shows how excited and involved you are with the pregnancy.

Assure her regularly
The thought of child birth give many to-be-mothers a lot of jitters. Assure her regularly that things would be fine and that you would be there for her throughout. This will have a calming effect on the mother and thereby on the child inside too. You may have to be giving assuring words more often than you like to make her feel good.

Spend more together time
During normal times, hanging out with your friends or going for a poker night is acceptable to most partners. Whereas pregnancy is a whole lot different to those normal times. It is important you spend more time with her doing the ‘fun' things. Things like watching movies or TV with her regularly helps in sending all positive and assuring signals to her.

Be sensitive and calm
Pregnancy is when hormones in your partner goes for a spin. You never know how she would react to a given situation that might seem normal to you. No matter how aggressive or emotional she becomes, be sensitive towards her and tackle the situation calmly.