The 5 Love Languages of Pregnancy

Feeling loved and valued is essential for humankind. And when a woman becomes pregnant, this need only magnifies. Her body and her hormones are waffly daily. Knowing and feeling that she is loved and appreciated by the people virtually her will help her finger unscratched and secure as she continues to grow this new life inside of her. But how everyone processes love is different. That is why Gary Chapman’s book “The 5 Love Languages” has been so popular. In his book, he describes the variegated ways people communicate and receive love. (You can take the quiz here to find out what yours is.) But with the highs and lows of pregnancy, how can you ensure that she feels loved? I covered the 5 love languages of labor and delivery, and postpartum and today, I’m sharing the 5 love languages of pregnancy.

What are the 5 Love Languages?

1. Words of Affirmation: Love is shown through written and spoken words of affection, compliments, words of appreciation, verbal encouragement, and praise.
2. Acts of Service: This is for people who believe that deportment speak louder than words. It’s when you like to be shown how you’re appreciated and want someone to go out of their way to show you they love you.
3. Receiving Gifts: You finger loved when people requite you visual symbols of love. It’s not well-nigh the gift’s monetary value but the symbolic thought and effort put overdue the item.
4. Quality Time: When you express your love by giving your undivided sustentation to someone without distractions.
5. Physical Touch: People who communicate their love and appreciation through this language, when they consent to it, finger appreciated when they are touched. This includes hugging, kissing, holding hands, sex, or cuddling. They value the feeling of warmth and repletion that comes with physical touch.

Below is what you can do to show your love and appreciation to a pregnant woman through the 5 love languages of pregnancy.

How to Use the 5 Love Languages During Pregnancy

1. Words of Affirmation

Pregnancy is a trappy time in a woman’s life. It’s really a miracle when you think well-nigh what her soul is doing as she grows this victual inside of her. However, pregnancy is not unchangingly easy. There can be lots of aches and pains withal the way. This includes morning sickness, pregnancy insomnia, heartburn, sciatica, back pain, fatigue, and more. There will be moments when she may finger tired, less attractive, or undesired. This is when partners need to be enlightened and speak up! Remind her of how trappy she is and the wondrous work her soul is doing. If her primary love language is words of affirmation, here are some things to say to her during her pregnancy to make her finger loved.

• You squint beautiful.
• Your soul is amazing!
• You’re once such a unconfined mother.
• I finger so happy to have you as the mother of my child.
• I really fathom all of the things you are doing to prepare for our new baby.
• You are so prepared for this baby. I’m so grateful for all of the preparations you have made.
• You are so trappy as a pregnant woman.
• I know this pregnancy isn’t easy. I fathom everything you are doing for our victual and our family.
• What can I do to make this wits easier for you? How can I help?
• I know you’re tired. Thank you for all of your nonflexible work.
• You’re doing such an incredible job. Each day you are getting closer to meeting our baby. Not much longer.
• This victual is so lucky to have you as his/her mother.
• You’ve washed-up such a unconfined job on our baby’s nursery.
• I’m here for you.
• I love you.

If speaking your love and appreciation is not your strength, words of stressing can moreover be expressed through a letter. Let her know through your writing that she is loved, desired, special and that you fathom all that she is doing. It will midpoint the world to her.

2. Acts of Service

Whether it’s the whence or the end of her pregnancy, she will be thrilled if you were to take something off of her plate and show her you love her. The first trimester can be exhausting, and the third trimester can be very uncomfortable. Making an effort to do something for her and showing her that you are thinking of her will make her day. Here are some ideas that you can do for her during her pregnancy if her primary love language is acts of service.

• Stock the fridge or pantry with her favorite foods
• Schedule a prenatal massage or chiropractic appointment for her
• Attend prenatal doctor or midwife appointments with her
• Pack her a delicious lunch for the day
• Surprise her with lunch out at work
• Put together the crib or help with the nursery without stuff asked.
• Cook her a nutritious dinner
• Do some of her chores that she normally does: laundry, pay the bills, pick up groceries.
• If you have other children, pick the kid(s) up from daycare or school on the way home.
• Run late-night trips to the store or restaurant to satisfy her food cravings.
• Draw her a rainbow bath
• Plan a date night or weekend getaway for the two of you

Things wilt increasingly difficult the remoter withal she gets in her pregnancy. By plane doing the simplest of tasks, she will be so grateful and finger loved.

3. Receiving Gifts

If receiving gifts is your partner’s love language, I recommend that you start paying sustentation to the things she says she needs and likes now and write them down. Surprising her with a little something to patina her day will really make her finger loved. It shows her that you have been paying sustentation and that you went out of your way to get something for her. Just know that a souvenir doesn’t have to be big and expensive. It doesn’t plane have to forfeit anything at all, just your time and effort. Here are some ideas to requite her if “receiving gifts” is her love language.

4. Quality Time

This is the last time in your lives where it will just be the two of you. Or if you’re a friend, your expecting friend will never be as available as she is right now. So soak it up! Giving her your time and full sustentation during her pregnancy will really midpoint a lot to her. Pregnancy can bring up uncertainty and fears in women that aren’t unchangingly rational. Stuff present for her and giving her your undivided attention, she will definitely finger your love. So put lanugo your phone, requite her the remote or turn off the TV. Listen to her and be engaged in your time together. Here are some ideas that you can do for “quality time.”

• Exercise or go on a walk together.
• Go to a couples’ massage.
• Take childbirth classes or parenting classes together.
• Read a pregnancy/birth/parenting typesetting together.
• Go to prenatal appointments with her.
• Take a babymoon.
• Go on a stage night out or date night in
• Watch a movie together.
• Snuggle on the couch.
• Decorate the baby’s nursery together.
• Baby proof the house together.
• Schedule dedicated, uninterrupted conversations
• Take her out to dinner.
• Play a board game together.

Doing these things with her can be a unconfined way to shower her with love.

5. Physical Touch

All humans need physical touch. Some require only minimal amounts, but others truly finger loved and unfluctuating when they are stuff embraced. However, some mothers will finger completely touched out, expressly at the end of the day, and want no physical contact. But if this is her primary love language, she will probably still want to have purposeful, meaningful, and loving touch from her partner. By giving her some uneaten physical sustentation and love, she will finger increasingly lulu and desired, which increases her feeling of security. Something as simple as holding her hand or rubbing her feet can really help. If her primary love language is physical touch, here are some things you can do during her pregnancy to make her finger loved.

• Hold her hand
• Give her hugs
• Massage her lower back, shoulders, hands, and feet
• Rub her head
• Brush her hair
• Dance with her
• Sit near her
• Skin-to-skin contact
• Cuddle
• Kiss her: on her hand, her cheek, her lips
• Touch or rub her pregnant belly
• Feel the baby’s movements and talk to her pregnant belly
• Sex/sexual interaction
• Intimacy and touch without sex

This is the time to focus on your relationship and strengthen it surpassing the victual comes. By putting in the time and effort to nurture your bond, she will finger so much for confident, supported, and loved. And when she feels your love and support, it’s a unconfined stepping stone as you both walk into parenthood.