A 20-year-old client who is at 10 weeks' gestation confides that the pregnancy was unplanned and is unsure about continuing it or sharing news about it with her partner. How should the nurse respond to this client?
1. "You should go to a pregnancy support group to be a good mother."
2. "It's common to feel ambiguous about pregnancy in the first trimester."
3. "These thoughts are because your mother died when you were 4 years old."
4. "It's really unusual for a pregnant woman to feel this way early in the pregnancy."
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Explanation:
1. No psychopathology is present, so a support group is not indicated.
2. Ambivalence toward the pregnancy is very common in the first trimester.
3. Loss of the client's own mother at a young age would not affect the occurrence of ambivalence in the first trimester.
4. Fathers might not be told immediately about the diagnosis of pregnancy.
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