{"id":3177,"date":"2026-07-21T22:02:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:02:57","slug":"law-orders-odelya-halevi-on-pregnancy-mood-swings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=3177","title":{"rendered":"Law & Order’s Odelya Halevi on Pregnancy Mood Swings"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tWhen it comes to celebrity pregnancy announcements<\/a>, we usually just get the glossy highlight reel. But Law & Order<\/em> star Odelya Halevi is keeping it honest about how overwhelming pregnancy hormones<\/a> feel.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 37-year-old actress, who plays Assistant District Attorney Samantha Maroun on the hit series, just revealed that she is expecting her first child (a baby girl due in December) with her husband, Aaron Mazor.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Halevi is overjoyed to become a family of three, she recently admitted that the sudden emotional shifts caught her off guard.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cThe thing that I wasn\u2019t fully prepared for was how amplified and intense my emotions would be,\u201d Halevi told People<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI barely recognized myself. Almost like having a split personality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Halevi, the breaking point came during a move into a newly renovated apartment during her first trimester. Despite being excited about the move, she admitted she suddenly, and irrationally, \u201chated everything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI knew it wasn\u2019t rational,\u201d she continued. \u201cI knew I had been counting down the days until we moved in, and I knew I was overreacting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThen, the movers accidentally broke a houseplant she had nurtured for four years.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI cried hysterically, like I had lost a loved one,\u201d she recalled. \u201cThen I started laughing because I realized how dramatic I was being, but I still couldn\u2019t stop crying.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile it sounds funny in hindsight, that level of emotional whiplash is a very real physiological response. During the first trimester, estrogen and progesterone levels skyrocket<\/a>. To put it in perspective, a woman produces more estrogen<\/a> during a single pregnancy than she will throughout the rest of her entire life. This rapid hormonal shift alters how the brain\u2019s neurotransmitters (specifically serotonin) regulate mood. Add in the effects of that progesterone, which relaxes the uterus but triggers intense fatigue and brain fog, and the emotional volatility makes perfect sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHalevi\u2019s candidness is a much-needed reminder that morning sickness<\/a> isn\u2019t the only hurdle in early pregnancy, and feeling overwhelmed by your own emotions is just biology doing its job.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn top of the emotional whiplash, the actress is dealing with some specific food cravings<\/a> (which is to be expected). Halevi said she first suspected she was pregnant after helping herself to chocolate in the producers\u2019 office, a move she noted was very unlike her. Now, she\u2019s obsessed with eating oatmeal topped with date syrup and a frozen banana.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI just figured I was eating more of the foods I already loved. But then the other night, I was lying in bed, trying to fall asleep after my oatmeal with date syrup and a frozen banana, and I caught myself thinking, \u2018I cannot wait to wake up tomorrow so I can eat this again,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI never liked oatmeal before I got pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite the mood swings and the newfound oatmeal obsession, Halevi says that feeling her daughter kick for the first time made all the challenging side effects worth it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI can\u2019t wait to meet my little girl,\u201d she shared. \u201cI already feel like I know her in some ways, and I\u2019m so excited to finally see her face, find out who she looks like, and get to know what I can only imagine will be a big personality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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When it comes to celebrity pregnancy announcements, we usually just get the glossy highlight reel. But Law & Order star Odelya Halevi is keeping it honest about how overwhelming pregnancy hormones feel. The 37-year-old actress, who plays Assistant District Attorney Samantha Maroun on the hit series, just revealed that she is expecting her first child (a baby girl due in December) with her husband, Aaron Mazor. While Halevi is overjoyed to become a family of three, she recently admitted that the sudden emotional shifts caught her off guard. Related story Leven Rambin Nearly Died During ‘Routine’ Endometriosis Surgery: ‘All of This So I Can Prepare to Have Kids’ \u201cThe thing that I wasn\u2019t fully prepared for was how amplified and intense my emotions would be,\u201d Halevi told People. \u201cI barely recognized myself. Almost like having a split personality.\u201d For Halevi, the breaking point came during a move into a newly renovated apartment during her first trimester. Despite being excited about the move, she admitted she suddenly, and irrationally, \u201chated everything about it.\u201d \u201cI knew it wasn\u2019t rational,\u201d she continued. \u201cI knew I had been counting down the days until we moved in, and I knew I was overreacting.\u201d Then, the movers accidentally broke a houseplant she had nurtured for four years. \u201cI cried hysterically, like I had lost a loved one,\u201d she recalled. \u201cThen I started laughing because I realized how dramatic I was being, but I still couldn\u2019t stop crying.\u201d While it sounds funny in hindsight, that level of emotional whiplash is a very real physiological response. During the first trimester, estrogen and progesterone levels skyrocket. To put it in perspective, a woman produces more estrogen during a single pregnancy than she will throughout the rest of her entire life. This rapid hormonal shift alters how the brain\u2019s neurotransmitters (specifically serotonin) regulate mood. Add in the effects of that progesterone, which relaxes the uterus but triggers intense fatigue and brain fog, and the emotional volatility makes perfect sense.\u00a0 Halevi\u2019s candidness is a much-needed reminder that morning sickness isn\u2019t the only hurdle in early pregnancy, and feeling overwhelmed by your own emotions is just biology doing its job.\u00a0 On top of the emotional whiplash, the actress is dealing with some specific food cravings (which is to be expected). Halevi said she first suspected she was pregnant after helping herself to chocolate in the producers\u2019 office, a move she noted was very unlike her. Now, she\u2019s obsessed with eating oatmeal topped with date syrup and a frozen banana. \u201cI just figured I was eating more of the foods I already loved. But then the other night, I was lying in bed, trying to fall asleep after my oatmeal with date syrup and a frozen banana, and I caught myself thinking, \u2018I cannot wait to wake up tomorrow so I can eat this again,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI never liked oatmeal before I got pregnant.\u201d Despite the mood swings and the newfound oatmeal obsession, Halevi says that feeling her daughter kick for the first time made all the challenging side effects worth it. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to meet my little girl,\u201d she shared. \u201cI already feel like I know her in some ways, and I\u2019m so excited to finally see her face, find out who she looks like, and get to know what I can only imagine will be a big personality.\u201d Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-female-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}