A first pregnancy can be both anxious and exciting__1__ time for a woman. Having never given birth before, the expected mother is usually filled with__2_worries. She regularly thinks her unborn child has stopped moving. At another times, she wonders if __3_her baby will be normal, if it will be deformed and __4_retarded, and, most frightening to her, if it will be stillborn. Because she hates thinking __5_these possible misfortunes, she cannot__6_help it. However, she is usually unable to comfort__7_herself with her excitement. She constantly wonders how__8_her child will be like, what color of hair .and eyes it will have, when it will arrive. These __9_feelings are to be expected of the first-time mother; __10this is perhaps the most anxious and exciting period of her life to date.