We need each other.

“When you’re pregnant, you have absolutely no control. You’re nauseous and very exhausted and I just couldn’t imagine doing it” 

“I felt nothing but hope at the time of finding out I was pregnant. I hoped that I had better luck this time around than what I did when I had my first child”

“I didn’t want to acknowledge that something was up because it was a whole week of me just feeling something was wrong and not wanting to say anything. Hoping the feeling would go away”

Nearly half (45%) of pregnancies in the US were unexpected or unplanned in some way, according to Guttmacher. 

“I remember feeling embarrassed about being pregnant and know I wouldn’t be a good parental provider and just to have the doctor watch me go through that at a tough moment..” 

“I just needed someone, because I was very upset and I clearly tried to do something really terrible. I was really confused, and it felt like I was panicking and spiralling in a really dark place, and that's why I reached out to my therapist”