Anurse in the antepartum clinic is assessing a client's adaptation to pregnancy. the client states that she is, "happy one minute and crying the next." the nurse should interpret the client's statement as an indication of which of the following? a. the nurse should recognize and interpret the client's statement as an indication of emotional lability. b. many women experience rapid and unpredictable changes in mood during pregnancy. c. intense hormonal changes may be responsible for mood changes that occur during pregnancy. d. tears and anger alternate with feelings of joy or cheerfulness for little or no reason.

The nurse should interpret the client's statement as an indication of: c) Intense hormonal changes may be responsible for mood changes that occur during pregnancy.

Explanation:

Pregnancy is a complicated state for women for different reasons, among them we have the hormonal changes which is responsble for the umpredictable mood changes. There for it is also well known that women experiment mood changes. Not only hormons are involved in this process, but also psychological changes are playing an importan role in how a pregnant women is going to be like, for there are physical and emotional changes.

It is not a matter of emotional lability, because the are real factors that can be responsable for the mood changes.