Pregnancy Options

If you're unexpectedly pregnant, you may have noticed the change in your hormones and the way you feel. And then upon finding out you're pregnant, your emotions can become overwhelming. Unplanned pregnancy is a life-changing event that almost no woman has imagined happening to her. An unplanned pregnancy can affect your education or career goals, your social life and your intimate relationships. For teens and young unmarried women, pregnancy is rife with pressure and stigmas that can grate at their self-esteem. But being scared isn't an option for pregnancy. Getting help at a Planned Parenthood center is a good place to start. The health care professionals at PP will be able to help a woman assess her pregnancy options.

The big three options are thus: to see the pregnancy to term and raise the child as a single parent or to see the pregnancy to term and place the child with an adoptive family. Women can also opt to have the pregnancy terminated, which is a service Planned Parenthood can advise upon without bias.

Infant adoption is one of the most desired among domestic adopters. A woman who sees her pregnancy to term but doesn't have the resources or time to raise the child herself can be assured the child will find an adoptive home, whether it's with a "stranger" or the child is adopted by a relative.