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When Unplanned Pregnancy Becomes Reality Lauren Urrea felt her world shatter into a million pieces as she saw the result of her pregnancy test. The reality of her unplanned pregnancy caused her to question her most foundational beliefs about God, family, career, and most importantly, life itself. Graduation from Virginia Tech was a few months […]
What if there was one simple thing you could do while pregnant to not only improve the health of your baby, but also your own health? Turns out, there is. Pregnancy is a natural and beautiful process, but it’s also mysterious and complex. You don’t actually know the whole of your baby’s health picture until […]
Kylie Jenner, the 20-year-old sister of Kim Kardashian, broke pregnancy rumors earlier this week. While she typically shares a lot of her life with her fans on social media, Jenner chose to keep her pregnancy private until the birth of her daughter on February 1. She finally wrote to her fans, telling them that she […]
For our family, this Christmas season will be our most memorable. It is our first Christmas as a family of three. Our home is overflowing with love, magic, and new beginnings. This year we get to celebrate Christmas with our son. We spent hours Christmas shopping (and lets be honest, baby B is not even […]
Live Action News — Tracey Kirby was shocked and excited when she learned she was pregnant with three boys—one singleton and a set of twins. But at 18-19 weeks, doctors found that the twins had twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, in which the blood vessels of the twins’ shared placenta are connected, resulting in one twin receiving too much […]
I was suffering from a major case of “pregnancy-phobia.” It was around midnight and I was driving home from a movie when I decided to swing into the Safeway and buy a pregnancy test—just to set my mind at ease. I was embarrassed that the cashier might see me go straight into the bathroom with […]
I have always known in my heart that I was meant to have children through adoption. I loved everything baby from the time I was a baby and nurturing has always been my love language. It didn’t matter if it was a neighbor’s baby who I babysat for, an orphaned lamb who needed me to […]
I was suffering from a major case of “pregnancy-phobia.” It was around midnight and I was driving home from a movie when I decided to swing into the Safeway and buy a pregnancy test—just to set my mind at ease. I was embarrassed that the cashier might see me go straight into the bathroom with […]
When I was fifteen, I got pregnant. I loved that baby even before my pregnancy was officially confirmed. I started planning. I looked into jobs, changed my classes to night classes, and tried to find people to watch my baby while I worked and finished school. I was strong-willed and determined to do it the […]
The pieces of our adoption story started falling into place long before we officially made the decision to pursue adoption. We moved, changed jobs, received promotions, and met new people. All of these things happened because God knew where we needed to be in order to adopt. He knew the path our lives needed to […]
It’s a Tuesday late in April and Melissa Gormley sits in a recliner, cherishing the bumps and kicks from her baby, growing inside her womb. As minutes crawl into hours, the sign of life is a welcomed distraction from the taxol and carboplatin streaming through her veins. Melissa, 31, is not alone, surrounded by other […]
My husband and I prayed for years to be blessed with a baby. We were hoping for a spontaneous miracle, but when that didn’t happen, we looked for some medical intervention. We gathered up all of our savings, cashed in retirement funds, sold belongings, and eventually scraped up enough money to pay for one round […]
