Author Question: In understanding and guiding a woman through her acceptance of pregnancy, a maternity nurse should ... (Read 120 times)

xroflmao · **on:** Jun 28, 2018

In understanding and guiding a woman through her acceptance of pregnancy, a maternity nurse should be aware that:

a. Nonacceptance of the pregnancy very often equates to rejection of the child.
b. Mood swings most likely are the result of worries about finances and a changed lifestyle as well as profound hormonal changes.
c. Ambivalent feelings during pregnancy usually are seen only in emotionally immature or very young mothers.
d. Conflicts such as not wanting to be pregnant or childrearing and career-related decisions need not be addressed during pregnancy because they will resolve themselves naturally after birth.

Question 2

A 3-year-old girl's mother is 6 months pregnant. What concern is this child likely to verbalize?

a. How the baby will get out c. Whether her mother will die
b. What the baby will eat d. What color eyes the baby has

Alyson.hiatt@yahoo.com · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 28, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
Mood swings are natural and are likely to affect every woman to some degree. A woman may dislike being pregnant, refuse to accept it, and still love and accept the child. Ambivalent feelings about pregnancy are normal for mature or immature women, younger or older women. Conflicts such as not wanting to be pregnant or childrearing and career-related decisions need to be resolved. The baby ends the pregnancy but not all the issues.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
By age 3 or 4, children like to be told the story of their own beginning and accept its comparison with the present pregnancy. They like to listen to the fetal heartbeat and feel the baby move. Sometimes they worry about how the baby is being fed and what it wears. School-age children take a more clinical interest in their mother's pregnancy and may want to know, How did the baby get in there? and How will it get out? Whether her mother will die does not tend to be the focus of a child's questions about the impending birth of a sibling. The baby's eye color does not tend to be the focus of children's questions about the impending birth of a sibling.