A woman has just received the news that she is pregnant. She is ambivalent about the pregnancy because she had planned to go bac
k to work when her youngest child started school next year. What developmental task of pregnancy must the woman accomplish in the first trimester of this pregnancy?
The developmental task that is associated with the first trimester is accepting that she is pregnant.
Ambivalence is an normal emotion which is seen in case of early pregnancy. Whenever a women has not planned for pregnancy then it is not easy for her to accept her pregnancy.
So, first of all she should accept that she is pregnant.