Physical reactions
As for the physical reactions, participants reported symptoms such as dropping of the blood pressure, nausea, backache, headache, feeling pain in legs, edema, and feelings such as piercing spasm in the stomach, feeling that one's belly is being torn apart, feeling flatulence after eating something, and feeling that something was moving in the belly. One participant said:
“I feel that my stomach is being torn apart.”
Spiritual reactions
As for the religious beliefs, participants spoke of cases like the child in the stomach being a miracle, reading the Quran for the child's health, and believing that having a baby at a young age was providence. Regarding the subtheme of faith, they referred to things such as supplicating God for a healthy pregnancy, praying God for a healthy child, husband's prayers for the health of the mother and the child, supplicating God and being satisfied with what God ordains no matter what it is. A participant whose pregnancy was preplanned and whose marriage was consensual said:
“I can’t get any sleep at nights. I wasn’t feeling well. I feared that my blood pressure might drop. But gradually, I would say ‘I trust in God. Whatever He wills will be ok.’”