Can crying cause complications of pregnancy?
No one knows if crying too much or feeling great sadness could cause a complication of pregnancy. Many of my patients actually have been told by well-meaning friends or relatives that their drawn-out crying spells were hurting their unborn baby in some way. However, the reality is that tragic life events happen, and you can’t make yourself feel differently than you do–even if you try to ignore or suppress the emotion. Grief is part of living and loving. I know a woman who lost one parent in her first pregnancy and her other parent while expecting her second child. Yet, even though she spent much of both pregnancies crying and grieving, her pregnancies went well medically and her children, by all accounts, are just fine. It’s hard to judge cause and effect with stress–the best thing to do is to modify what you can. Sometimes taking a positive step in the midst of tragedy can make you feel more in control and less helpless. Research on stress Stress results in the perception of emotion
