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#AyurvaidWay: Harmful Mental Factors in Pregnancy

Learn about the emotional factors that can affect pregnancy negatively and discover ways to manage and prevent them.

Dr. Swetha S. Suvarna

In this video, Dr. Swetha Suvarna discusses the emotional aspects of Garbhaupaghatakara Bhavas, factors that can impact pregnancy. Extreme emotions like anger, grief, and anxiety can affect both the mother's well-being and the child's development. Dr. Swetha highlights the importance of emotional balance and moderation, encouraging you to manage stress for a healthy, peaceful pregnancy experience for both you and your baby.

The mental factors from the Garbha Upaghatakara Bhavas told in Ayurveda can directly affect the psychosocial behavior of the child, it can affect the cognitive as well as the non-cognitive outcomes in a child and also can affect the emotional wellbeing in a child and these are all a long-term uh effects that it can leave on a child. So under the mental
factors that can affect a pregnancy or the considered as a Garbha Upaghatakara Bhavas are extreme indulgence of in extreme grief, anger, fear or being very anxious or expectant of something- all these emotions in a balanced state is perfectly fine but overindulgence in grief or overindulgence in anger or anxiousness and getting into a phase where the mother is always depressed with the anxious feeling or with fear is
something that can definitely affect the outcomes in the child. There have been several research studies showing that the variation in the mother's emotional status during pregnancy can affect the outcomes in child ranging from emotional disturbance, ADHD, cognitive disorders, impaired cognition and different levels of emotional variation in the child.