In Indonesia, we face the unspoken unique culture that being pregnant for woman is a duty to be accomplished after marriage. Our circumstance deems the marriage will not be completed if there is no babies delivered afterwards.
Pregnancy become one of the instrument to measure the couple's happiness and our society command that the newly weds should not take long time to have a bump in bride's belly.
Those pressure usually come from family, particularly their parents, friends, or even the woman's own partner with various arguments. Family urges to continue descents, hereinafter partners are accusing that baby can strengthen their marriage's bound.
In fact, being pregnant is not as simple as people think. Pregnancy is a condition which gives complex disruption to your body's system. The hormones will give impact on physiology alteration and provoke imbalance in your body's chemical and anatomy. In other words, being pregnant put every woman in harmful condition and, harshly said, closer to death. One of the alteration occurred is the escalation of body fluid inside the mother's vessel in order to fullfill the baby's demand.
Unfortunately, the fluid volume escalation will make their heart pump harder to compensate the intra-vessel's high pressure. It can lead to hypertension disease if the mother's basal condition before being pregnant can not overcome the alteration.
If hypertensive condition is not well treated, other organs will get impacted and release unfavorable toxic metabolite, furthermore there is a huge chance of seizure in the mother. This condition called as eclampsia and become one of the highest cause of maternal mortality.
On the other side, mental problem become another rising disease in pregnant women. This condition sneaks up along those pregnant women, crawling in silence particularly in those who did not have prior preparation to face pregnancy. Mental health problem in pregnant woman can be seen as depression, anxiety or other psycotic form such as halucination.
Those symptomps can develop during pregnancy or post-delivery. Furthermore, there are a lot of diseases contributed by pregnancy which can lower both the mother's quality of life and the quality of born babies.
The pregnant woman need to fulfill the intake of herself and the baby, but most of them make a wrong assumption that they need to take food portion twice bigger.
The actual concept is they should reach their nutrition target. Most of the nutrition can not be completed only by daily meals, so the pregnant woman need to get prescription for additional supplementation. In order to have healthy pregnancy, the supplementation should be given prior to the plan of conception.
Therefore, the couple who desire to have pregnancy directly after their marriage need to meet their physician to plan what kind of supplementation they should take.