Financial woes and workplace rows making pregnancy traumatic: HSE

ONE third of recent mothers have described their pregnancy as traumatic, with half blaming financial worries.

A study published yesterday by the Health Service Executive’s Crisis Pregnancy Programme described the experiences of 2,300 women who had a baby between July 2007 and June 2009.

It found 44% said their pregnancy was unplanned. More than four in 10 women who said their pregnancy was traumatic blamed medical difficulties.