PSA to anyone who tries to touch an expectant mom’s belly.
says a woman undergoes significant mental and physical changes during the third trimester.
The study specifically looked at pregnant women’s need for peripersonal space—the immediate area surrounding our bodies that our brains constantly monitor. Commonly referred to as “personal space” or a “safety bubble,” it’s the area where the majority of interactions occur, and usually within arm’s length of another person.
Scientists used an audio-tactile test to measure the boundaries of peripersonal space during pregnancy. They tested women who were not pregnant, as well as women in their second trimester when the stomach is beginning to grow, third trimester when the bump is clearly visible and women who were eight weeks post-birth. They found a pregnant women’s sense of personal space expands during the third trimester of pregnancy.
"Our results suggest that when the body undergoes significantly large changes, at the stage when the abdomen is clearly expanded, the maternal brain also begins to make adjustments to the space immediately surrounding the body,” explains lead author Dr. Flavia Cardini, senior lecturer in psychology at Anglia Ruskin University. “So as the mother's bump grows, in effect the expanded peripersonal space is the brain's way of ensuring danger is kept at arm's length.
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