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Deal With an Unplanned Pregnancy

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy? Scared? Embarrassed? Alone?

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At The Pro Life Center, we are here to help you where help is needed most with an untimely pregnancy.

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There are caring people who can help you understand your choices, and you decide what best works for you. They offer friendship, understanding and complete confidentiality.

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Dealing with an unplanned pregnancy can be a very confusing time bringing with it many emotions and questions.

It is normal for a pregnant woman to feel anxious and experience self doubt. Hormonal changes which occur during early pregnancy contribute to the mother’s emotional stress.

Sometimes difficult circumstances surrounding pregnancy can seem insurmountable.

These difficulties can be overcome with time, support and understanding. Many women have discovered motherhood to be one of the most fulfilling experiences of their lives.

The best way to cope with unplanned pregnancy is:

1. Meet with a counselor at the nearest Crisis Pregnancy Center

2. Don’t make any hasty decisions. Don’t let others make a decision for you.

3. Get the facts on the development of your unborn baby.

4. Locate organizations that will support your decision. Perhaps getting pregnant was unplanned, but a hasty decision is never a solution.

You know that the best solution will respect your rights and the rights of the new life growing within you.

There are caring people who can help you understand your choices, and you decide what best works for you. They offer friendship, understanding and complete confidentiality. However, you do have options.

Your alternatives would be:

• Allow the baby to be born

• Choosing single parenthood or marriage

• Adoption

• Terminate the pregnancy

The birth of a baby will change your life … for the better. Just knowing that you allowed the baby to live will never give you a lifetime of regret. Circumstances that you are faced with now could change.

Our center after 23 years has never had a mother regret that she allowed her baby to live.

Placing your baby into the hands of a couple who will never have children is a very loving sacrifice.

Perhaps at this time in life you are unable to provide for your child, but you will always be the baby’s mother.

Millions of couples are waiting to adopt children into good homes with loving parents. Once a baby’s life is terminated … this life can never be replaced.

It may seem like a quick solution for your problem, but you will soon realize that your baby will never have another chance at life.

Whether you decide to parent or make an adoption plan, it is important for you to care for your unborn child.

Visit Pro Life Center of Wilkes-Barre to learn more.

At The Pro Life Center, we are here to help you where help is needed most with an untimely pregnancy. And remember that we have professionals ready to talk to you about your situation, as you decide what is best for you and your baby.

Single parenting

Single parenting is a real challenge and a very difficult one. Maturity, responsibility and financial stability play an important role in considering the choice in being a single parent. Being able to look to the future and plan for a secure future for yourself and the baby is extremely important in making this decision. A home life for the baby with a mother and father is the most stable situation.

Marriage

Well-meaning people may try to push you into marriage. But marriage is intended to be forever, especially when it involves children.

Getting married because you are pregnant is a poor basis for building a loving family. Marriage failures are high for those who marry under such pressures. You should be the one to decide what is right for your life and for the life of the child. Marriage is a serious step to a committed relationship.

Adoption

Considering adoption means that you are concerned about being a good mother — wise enough to realize that you might not be ready to raise a child at this time in your life.

You may be concerned with what your family and friends will think of your decision, but the important thing is what you think. An adoption decision can be made any time during pregnancy or even after the baby is born. Adoption agencies have long lists of qualified couples who are unable to have children and are ready to love and raise a child.

You can help choose the adoptive parents for your child, as adoption plans can be developed that allow you to be as involved as you would like to be, both before and after your child’s birth. Through the counseling services that are available to you, they will enable you to begin to explore your personal needs, concerns and issues surrounding your pregnancy.

Whatever you decide, we believe it is important that you make an informed decision and that you feel comfortable and confident with your decision. We are here to support you through the many emotions you may experience through this difficult time.

The Pro Life Center can also provide you with information regarding adoption.

Pro-Life Center services include:

• Information on pregnancy and abortion

• Referrals for all pregnancy-elated concerns

• Education on fetal development

• Post-abortion healing

• Maternity clothes, baby clothes and supplies

• Counseling and education on crisis pregnancy

• Prenatal care education

You have major decisions to make. You need to learn about all of your options. There are simply no easy answers.

And no one should have to be alone. Please let our professionals at Pro Life Center help you during this time.

Life is the center of our concern for you and your baby.

There are no fees and you are not obligated to do anything. You are not alone. We truly care.

Call our Pregnancy Support Center at (570) 826-1819.

It is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., and other times by appointment.

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