Explanation
•Often, women spend time recovering from the shock of learning they are pregnant and concentrate on what it feels like to be pregnant. A common reaction is ambivalence, or feeling both positive and negative toward the pregnancy.
•As many as 50% of pregnancies are unintended, unwanted, or mistimed. Every pregnancy is a surprise to some extent, either because the woman had not planned on becoming pregnant or had been looking forward to being pregnant but cannot believe it has happened.