Unexpectedly Pregnant Articles

Adoption benefits everyone in the adoption triad. Many of these benefits are helpful to the birthmother and birthfather. Other benefits are directed at the child who is being placed for adoption and/or the adoptive parents. Adoption brings a positive ending to a challenging situation and benefits everyone involved.

Interesting enough, we didn't plan this pregnancy but it could not have been more wanted!

As you look back over the years you can probably identify important, pivotal events in your life. These events may have been the result of choices you made or the decision someone else made for you. When facing an un-planned pregnancy, the decision is one that no one else should make for you.

A urine test is a routine test used by your healthcare provider as part of your prenatal care. Although urine tests are used in screening for pregnancy, this article is discussing urine tests as part of your routine prenatal care.

If your first baby isn't very old, it is only natural to be concerned about what other people will think when you tell them your good news -- particularly those that are closest to you. I am afraid that some of them will not approve of your decision to move so quickly to conceive a second time.

Pregnant teenagers require special understanding, medical care, and education -- particularly about nutrition, infections, substance abuse, and complications of pregnancy.

Young moms can be terrific. If you are a pregnant teenager and have decided to have the baby, there's a world of possibilities ahead of you. That may not be what the people around you are telling you.

A woman who drinks alcohol during pregnancy risks giving birth to an abnormal child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). A child born with FAS has a pattern of mental and physical defects.