Unplanned pregnancies can be very inconvenient and stressful.
There are different reasons why a baby may be unwanted:
- a premarital pregnancy
- an extra-marital pregnancy
- a crisis pregnancy - financial stress, health problems for the mother or baby, rape and incest
- an inconvenient pregnancy - due to the woman's age, college plans, career, marriage, family size
Maybe you know a woman who had an unplanned pregnancy.
I've known of a few women in this situation:
- A young woman who was raped during her college years. She kept the baby and that baby was a special blessing and helped her to heal.
- A woman who was told that she had to have an operation and the baby wouldn't survive. If she didn't have the operation, she would die. Well, she kept her baby and had the operation after she gave birth. Both the mother and child are just fine today.
- A woman who had no health insurance or way of taking care of a baby financially. But, she found community and government resources that were available and God provided for her and the baby.
- An unmarried Christian woman became pregnant and was worried about what her family would think. Her parents ended up inviting her to live with them and they helped her take care of the baby.
- Unplanned Pregnancy Website
- Your Local Pregnancy Care Centers (they offer free services, counseling, pregnancy tests, and Ultrasounds
- Book: I'm Pregnant...Now What?
- Unplanned Pregnancy Resources by Hope for the Heart
- Baby Center Site - The Everything Site about Pregnancy and Babies
4 comments:
I came to check out your WW and ran across this post. I'm glad to see this view. I learned two years ago that my son was not from my exhusband. He was in fact from a rape by my uncle. When I was assaulted I though I was already pregnant. I was devestated, of course. But I know that irregardless of his parentage he is absolutely the most beautiful blessing in the world. And I truly think that God didn't want me to know until I was able to handle it and was in a loving marriage (that I also think he led me too).
Great posting! Thanks for putting it on here....hopefully someone will read this and be encouraged to become a greater voice in the days ahead.
One of my daughters went through difficult births with her two "special-needs" children, a divorce, suicide of the father of her children; and now has recently remarried and is dealing with an unplanned pregnancy which interfears with her career, health problems and only one year of college left. BUT...we have no doubt that this baby wasn't in God's plan to be a blessing to this precious new family and to unite it as one. I agree with your posting. KG
Beautiful post---Thanks for combining Ps 139:13 with Jer 29:11 and speaking the truth into the terrifying reality of unplanned pregnancy. It really is terrifying.
I just wrote an editor last night about how what I thought was plan B was actually God's plan A all along. What has followed after my will/lack of planning has had far greater meaning than anything else that could have come from my life.
I'm not sure whether I'll ever be able to wrap my head around His Love, His Mercy, His Sovereignty in spite of my humanity. To God be the Glory! (Joyce is on to something...you all might read a whole lot more about my situation in the future.)
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