Emotional Authority With Pregnancy Hormones Explained
If you have Emotional Authority, your body already knows how to ride a wave. Pregnancy asks you to ride two at once.
The Mechanics of Your Emotional Wave
In Human Design, Emotional Authority comes from having a defined Solar Plexus Center. This is your emotional body, and it operates on a wave that moves between three points: a low, a neutral clarity, and a high. The low can feel like grief, tiredness, or a sudden doubt about everything. The high can feel like certainty, joy, or the urge to make a big decision immediately. Neither is where truth lives.
The neutral point is where you can actually see.
The wave is not the same length for everyone, and it does not move in straight lines. It can take a few hours or longer to cycle. The instruction your design gives you is the simplest and hardest one: wait for clarity. Sleep on it. Watch the feeling move. Make the decision from the middle, not the peak.
This is the system you are built to navigate before a baby ever arrives.
Pregnancy Hormones as a Wave Inside Your Wave
Pregnancy is a hormonal story, and the hormones involved have their own emotional signatures. Rising progesterone in the first trimester can feel like walking through fog. Rising estrogen in the second and third trimesters can amplify everything, including the highs and lows of your natural wave. Oxytocin begins to build toward the end, and cortisol rises as your body prepares for the intensity of birth.
When you already have a defined Solar Plexus, these hormones do not create a new experience. They amplify the one you already have. A normally clear emotional cycle can become longer, more intense, or more layered. A high that usually lasts an hour can last a day. A low that usually passes can sit for a few days.
This is not a problem to fix. It is information about how your specific design is interacting with a specific life event.
Decisions Across the Trimesters
Most of the major decisions in pregnancy fall into the same categories: tests, providers, birth setting, feeding, names, and how you want to be supported. None of them need to be made from a high or a low.
The first trimester is often a long low for people with Emotional Authority. Nausea, exhaustion, and the hormones of early pregnancy can hold you there. This is not the time to commit to a birth plan or a feeding method. Sleep on everything. Tell the people around you that you are not making decisions right now, and mean it.
The second trimester is often where the wave moves toward clarity. Many people with Emotional Authority find this is when they can finally hear their own voice on the big questions. Trust that. The neutral point that arrives in this window is real clarity, not a trick.
The third trimester brings its own surge. The anticipation can feel like a high, and the physical discomfort can feel like a low. The nesting urge is a real hormonal signal, but it is still a feeling, and feelings move. Use the wave to your advantage here. If you feel pulled toward something at the high, check in with it again at the low. If it is still there in the middle, it is yours.
The Postpartum Drop
Within about seventy-two hours of birth, estrogen and progesterone drop to levels lower than you have ever experienced. This is the biological reason for what is commonly called the baby blues: a window of tears, shaking, overwhelm, and sometimes unexpected grief. It usually lifts within a couple of weeks.
If you have Emotional Authority, this drop can feel like being dropped straight into the low of your wave with no buffer. Everything you were feeling at the end of pregnancy does not gently fade. It crashes.
This is also when decisions about visitors, feeding, sleep, and support are being made quickly. The temptation to decide in the moment, especially from a high caused by the relief of birth or the joy of meeting your baby, is enormous. The wave is not lying to you, but it is moving fast, and the lows will come. Make the major decisions from the neutral point, and build in a few days of waiting whenever you can.
The Gift Hidden in the Design
People with Emotional Authority often describe pregnancy and postpartum as the most clarifying times of their lives, once they understand their wave. The reason is simple: pregnancy makes the wave impossible to ignore. You cannot think your way out of what you are feeling. You have to ride it.
That is exactly the practice your design has been asking you to do all along.
The clarity that comes at the end of a wave, especially after the intensity of birth, is a clarity that can shape how you parent, how you partner, and how you understand yourself for years. You are not broken by the lows. You are not faking it during the highs. You are moving through a wave that was designed before you were, and it is showing you the truth in the middle.
Working With It Practically
A few things that tend to help people with Emotional Authority through pregnancy and the first postpartum months:
- Name the wave out loud when you feel it. "I am in the low right now" changes your relationship to the feeling.
- Sleep on every major decision, even if you feel sure. Especially if you feel sure.
- Let one trusted person know you are waiting for clarity. Ask them to hold the decision with you, not to make it for you.
- Write the lows down. They often look different on the page two days later.
- Treat the baby blues as a wave, not a verdict. It will move.
- If a low does not lift, or grows heavier, ask for help. Your design is wise, and it also lives in a body that sometimes needs more support.
Your Emotional Authority is not a problem to manage through pregnancy. It is a tool that was built for exactly this kind of territory. Learn the wave. Trust the middle. The clarity you find there will carry you into parenthood and far beyond.