Table 1.

List of events during pregnancy included in the study. Each woman is listed with one life event. One woman that reported marital infidelity of her husband followed by a divorce during her pregnancy is only listed once under the category “relationship conflicts”. Three other women that lost a family member suffering of a disease were each listed once under “death of someone close” and not under “severe illness of someone close”

Event		N (34)	%
Relationship conflicts	-divorce -break up -paternity denial -marital infidelity	15	44
Death of someone close	-partner -parent -other child	6	19
Severe illness of someone close	-cancer -heart attack -stroke	5	14
Severe financial problems	-loss of house by flooding -sudden unemployment of husband -foreclosure	3	8
Car accident		2	5
Unmarried, father not accepted by family		1	3
Becoming political refugee		2	5