In the article the problem of crisis pregnancy and the characteristics of its flow in different types of gestational dominant. Crisis pregnancy is seen as normative, the result of which under favorable conditions is the appearance of maternal position as the basis for personal development of women, its relationship to its position and the unborn child. The empirical study shows that the optimal gestational dominant connected with the positive course of the crisis, which is manifested in more pronounced of resilience and its components and the use of women more productive coping strategies. At the same time, suboptimal types of gestational dominant followed by high anxiety of the pregnant woman and intensity of psychological protection, which has a primitive, unproductive, using such negative coping strategies, such as avoidance and distraction. It is shown that the suboptimal type of gestational dominant observed in about half of pregnant women, hence the importance of research and its practical significance.