Pregnancy today. Randomized study of the emotional state of the woman and her partner

BACKGROUND: Pregnancy is a remarkable ground for studying the biopsychosocial perspective of psychosomatics, because there is a close correlation between biological conditions, that quickly change in time, and emotional implications that are this result of women psychological structure, her psychosexual maturation degree and her social and environment past and present influences. METHODS: Through a questionnaire including some general data and a more specific section to evaluate psychic and emotional factors of the pregnant and her partner during pregnancy, we interviewed 100 pregnant women beginning from the 32nd pregnancy week; all women attended the psychoprophylactic lessons for childbirth, they were between 20 and 41 years old and the 87% was primipara and the 13% was multipara. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that even if pregnancy is more and more planned and desired, anxiety and fears follow the joy and the happiness of having child, both in man and in woman. Thus, pregnancy and birth, seem to be, also today, too much medicated to the detriment of the "naturalness" of the event: in fact, woman uptake more drugs and there is an increased need to have a good medical assistance not for real obstetrical problems but only to make up for intense anxiety.