Pregnancy Burden: An Integrative Review and Dimensional Analysis of Pregnancy's Hidden Challenges.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Outcomes surrounding childbirth have focused on survival, leaving gaps in understanding the comprehensive experience of pregnancy for the pregnant individual. Anecdotally, pregnancy and the opportunity to reproduce is often received with a celebratory response. Yet whether planned or unplanned, a wide array of burdens may exist throughout pregnancy ranging from minor inconveniences to dangerous contributions to morbidity and mortality. The experience of pregnancy is superimposed onto the physical, mental, and social reality that already exists as an individual's life and consistently accentuates aspects of stress that can lead to increased physical, mental, emotional, financial, or other burden that many health and social systems globally lack resources to support. To

SUBMITTER: Kumarasamy HE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12529887 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature