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[N20]National Campaign To Prevent Teen And Unplanned Pregnancy

by Apurva Shree, Apu

Life is very fast nowadays, and we hardly have any time to sit, relax and brood over a mug of coffee. The constantly pending list of appointments is ready to goad us into action at all times. We do not have time to ponder over our important decisions. This is where we need to be careful and unplanned pregnancy may complicate your life to a great extent. Unplanned or unwanted pregnancy leaves you with very few choices. Either you decide to keep the baby or you decide to terminate your pregnancy. A third choice is that you put up the baby for adoption. After keeping the baby for nine months in your tummy, it is a very difficult choice to part with it.

Pre-Pregnancy Planning Is A Must

Unwanted pregnancy can be very harmful for the mother, as she has to undergo a lot of pressure from family and her partner if pregnancy planning was not done at the pre conception stage. On the other hand, it is possible that you yourself do not want to be pregnant due to career choices or financial constraints. From having a carefree life, you are suddenly faced with the consequences of being casual about pregnancy. Pregnancy is a shared responsibility, and you and your partner, both have to be physically and mentally prepared, to deal with it. It should create joy for both.

Means For Birth Control

You can delay pregnancy or avoid pregnancy by many ways and means. You can take birth control pills, use prophylactics etc. to make sure you stay clear of unwanted pregnancy. However, there have been cases in which a woman became pregnant even while using birth control methods. However, these are only accidental cases and negligible. It is essential that you do not get pregnant when you are in the pre pregnancy stage. When you decide to delay your pregnancy by birth control methods, you should start consulting your family physician on which birth control method is best suitable for you. No accidental pregnancy is welcome. It is a forced situation and it is not in the best interest of the mother or the baby.

Unplanned Pregnancy May Complicate Life To A Great Extent

Unplanned pregnancy can be a great pain in the neck. Just imagine a situation when you are taking strong medication or chemotherapy or you are a drug addict and you have unwanted pregnancy. All these situations are disastrous for the fetus. You will have to terminate the pregnancy and you will have to undergo a great physical turmoil as well.

There is a very common unplanned pregnancy situation, which keeps cropping up in every pregnancy clinic. When the woman of the house gets pregnant, the man of the house suddenly has to stick to celibacy for 4-6 months. Soon after the baby's delivery, both parents wait anxiously for the mother to recover completely, to resume their sexual activities. In their anxiousness, they usually cross the border and the woman becomes pregnant once again in 3-4 months. In such a situation, usually couples decide to terminate pregnancy. You should be very careful to go for abortion by operation. It can have adverse effects on the body of the woman. Even abortion without operation is an unhealthy way to clear unplanned pregnancy.

Pregnancy tools like Chinese calendar are very helpful in preparing the parents for delivering a healthy baby. A child is a precious gift of nature. It should get all the love from the parents that it really deserves. So save yourself from the trouble of an unplanned pregnancy and plan your baby from the pre conceiving stage.

In even the cases where people are very careful unplanned pregnancy can and does occur. If you have recently found that you are pregnant and it was not planned you have a lot of decisions and discussions in your future. Before you do anything you really need to stop and take a deep breath. Then you need to consider how you feel about this unplanned pregnancy.

A lot of women are really excited about the pregnancy despite it being a surprise while other women feel scared and other women just want to find a way to resolve the situation. You may find that there is a mixture of emotions going on inside of you and you may even find that they change from minute to minute. Take a few hours or even a couple days to process the reality of the pregnancy to determine how you feel about it.

The next thing you need to do is tell your boyfriend or husband about the unplanned pregnancy. Expect that they will have as many mixed emotions as you did. Many women are hurt by the responses of the men in their life, but you have to remember that if this was not planned they will have a surprised reaction and the first reaction may not be good or it may not be what you had hoped it would be. Give him the same thing you gave yourself, which is the chance to take a deep breath and really contemplate the unplanned pregnancy and what it means to them, their life, and your relationship.

After you have both had a chance to process the information you need to come together and discuss how you feel about it and what you would like to do. You have a lot of options such as keeping the baby and raising it, giving it up for adoption, and even abortion. This is a personal decision that each person has to make for themselves and many people consider each option when they are thinking about an unplanned pregnancy.

Think about how this will change your relationship, too. Will this bring you closer together and push you further apart? Can your relationship withstand the stress of a pregnancy and the presence of a child? Would you get married if you are not already? Would you move into together if you aren't already living together?

As you can see, an unplanned pregnancy can affect your relationship a lot. You have a lot of things to consider and hopefully it is something that you can do together. Remember to take things one at a time as an unplanned pregnancy can be very overwhelming for both of you.

Discuss the reality and how it will affect your relationship, what you are capable of, etc and go from there. An unplanned pregnancy doesn't have to be a bad thing and you should always remember that there are a variety of options available to you.

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