"This day Judy still wants to eat meat and drink beer" Mark adds (laughing) During pregnancy Judy gained some weight but it wasn't too bad it wasn't like she was large woman it was normal weight it wasn't out of control. ... Judy said that " I would of do it again if not my age because its very dangerious and a lot of money and I don't want put a child through all this and I want give all the best to my child" I learned that pregnancy is not that easy that there's a lot of worries, but its worth to go through this. ...

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The purpose of this letter is to provide you with all the information about my pregnancy, the process of giving birth to you, and include all the factors that I believe affected your overall development. ... I have to admit my temper got worse the first few months of pregnancy; I felt like I hated your father, everything seemed to irritate me. ... I can tell you, that after the third month after conception, when my body kind of got used to have you in my womb, I enjoyed every single moment of my pregnancy! ...

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Pregnancy was a celebrated occasion warranting elaborate feasts and celebrations. ... Pregnancy and childbirth were different for the Incas than for the Aztecs. Pregnant women prayed during their pregnancies to gods. During pregnancy, the Inca women did not stop their hard work like the Aztec women did. They kept working throughout the pregnancy and practically had the baby in the field as they worked. ...

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Pregnancy and childbirth can prevent women from keeping and getting jobs. ... Pregnancy has a great impact on the woman's future and her future relationship with her family. In many cases of unwanted pregnancies, the women are not married. ... Their pregnancy would be am embarrassment and disgrace to the family. ... A man can simply withdraw from a relationship as soon as he finds out about a pregnancy. ...

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Pregnancy and childbirth can prevent women from keeping and getting jobs. ... Pregnancy has a great impact on the woman's future and her future relationship with her family. In many cases of unwanted pregnancies, the women are not married. ... Their pregnancy would be am embarrassment and disgrace to the family. ... A man can simply withdraw from a relationship as soon as he finds out about a pregnancy. ...

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It shocks me that there are unplanned pregnancies at all in this age of advanced birth control technologies not to mention abstinence. Sure unplanned pregnancies do happen when birth control is used properly. ... It really helps a marriage to go through this year and sometimes longer without the added stress of a pregnancy and impending arrival of that third person. ... I know a lot of couples who married after pregnancy or because of pregnancy. ...

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Each year 75 million women have unwanted pregnancies. ... Only women should have the right to decide what to do about their pregnancies. ... Unfortunately, during the early stage of pregnancy something could happen to the woman's husband. ... The woman has some risk at not being able to get pregnant again, especially if it is her first pregnancy. ... It would probably reduce a percentage of unwanted pregnancies. ...

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Secondly, because of all the sexual transmitted diseases, and teenage pregnancies these days, parents start becoming extremely cautious. ... The third and most important reason parents should not have to be notified is that there will be more teenage pregnancies because the children will be too scared of their parents" reaction and will not use protection. ... From daughters having to admit to there parents of there sexual feeling, worrying about the parents reaction towards her boyfriend, and to finally the overall fear of the reaction, ending up in teenage pregnancies. ...

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Women in the Seneca tribe were often faced with harsh trials of life, including troubled pregnancies, short marriages with often absent husbands, and rough phases to face with their young children. ... When a Seneca woman's pregnancy ended well and the child was lucky enough to live, the Seneca tribe was often traveling from place to place in search of new, fertile land to farm. ...

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When she reflects she explains, "I was in such awe of my pregnancy and I was so scared of hurting my little boy growing inside my belly," (19). It sounds that perhaps she will do absolutely anything for this baby during her pregnancy however, this is not the case. One may think that Jowita will stop drinking during her pregnancy, but she continues to drink which is harmful to the baby during the nine month process. ...

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" The social standards behind pregnancy encourage parental love for the child but the surrogate industry encourages just the opposite. ... She states, "by manipulating and denying legitimacy to the surrogate mother's evolving perspective on her own pregnancy, the norms of the market degrade her.... While surrogacy assists with infertility and reduces risks for some couples, it attempts to twist the idea of pregnancy and parenthood into a practice that dehumanizes the surrogate mother by turning her into a labor machine. ...

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(Westphal, Sylvia 4) The reason that the nation is trying to be more tough on this issue is because many minors do not know what they are getting themselves into, with no responsibility, and even acknowledgment of what could happen next, and this next problem would either be an unwanted pregnancy or a life threatening disease. ... But in most cases, unexpected pregnancies with a minor and adult show that in the "US, men are generally somewhat older than their female sexual partners."... Which reported to say, "many pregnancies lead to a fatherless families, that increase the risk of ...

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At the beginning of the book Maya is a confused little girl suffering from the associated with being a black child in America. She is also suffering with the pain of living without her parents. Maya is smart and ingenious, but she always feels like other people judge her for being black. She feels v...

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The "freedom" that America has so desperately desired has now resulted in promiscuity, unwanted pregnancies, STDs, and thousands of broken homes. ... This girl, which we"ll call Mary, has grown up as the product of a teenage pregnancy, a failed marriage, and now finds herself as split property between two rivaled parents, whose only time as a whole family is when she is dropped off at her father's house by her mother. ...

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When Dolores's mother looses her child during pregnancy, their happy household falls apart. ... As time passed Dolores became pregnant, she feared telling Dante about the pregnancy and her past, for fear of losing him. When she finally worked up the courage to tell him about the pregnancy, he abandoned her, "I couldn't tell if my vomiting was from being pregnant of being abandoned". ... When Dolores was younger, her family was close, her mother became pregnant, but unfortunately it was a difficult pregnancy and Dolores's unborn brother passed away. ...

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About a year later, she had taken a home pregnancy test and to her disbelief it had come out positive. ... From that moment forward, pregnancy was no longer a purely happy exciting event. ... Twenty five weeks of pregnancy hadn't changed her shape significantly. ...

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While he was there he asked how my pregnancy was going and said, "You have to take care of my nephew for me, you know."" ... We both assumed it was probably a bad dream that I didn't remember, or just those little quirks that go along with pregnancy. ... She was concerned about my pregnancy. ...

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Actually, men are not totally in fault because till you go through a pregnancy and labor, you cannot understand what it really means to be a mother. ... Moreover, it is a fact that after child-birth, most women go through that is known as " baby blues" a deep depression that occur due to hormone unbalance and other stuffs that come with pregnancy. ... Those usually started with the pregnancy and goes persist after birth. ...

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I never knew when you get pregnant you get all the attention .my sixth month of pregnancy me my mother and my sister went home for the carnival to British virgin island we had food, rides, music, a kids parade and adult parade. ... During my pregnancy I was just fine the only part I don't like about being pregnant is that you can't sleep on your stomach and that's the most comfortable way for me to sleep .at eight months my aunt threw me a baby shower my family and friends were there we played some silly and fun games I ate a lot they talked a lot. ...

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Also, the mother offers advice on how to get away from unwanted pregnancy. ... Some 30 or 40 years ago, talking to your parents about sex, pregnancy, and everything in between those two, was taboo, but today, young people are talking openly to their parents about anything and they communicate more with their peers. ...

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La Llorona One of the first legends I came across said that the Llorona was to thought to be a witch. Sophia was her name. She lived in a small town where young girls had to be married by the age of sixteen. Sophia was nineteen when she met this handsome man named Luis. She gave birth to a ...

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How then will this girl approach her parents, who are constantly questioning and reminding her to be safe around the opposite sex, regarding an issue about pre-marital sex, let alone teen-pregnancy? Pregnancy is an irresponsible accident; and thus, although many parents would be more understanding than infuriated in such circumstances, young teenagers are so conditioned to fear the consequences that they are too afraid to approach their parents. ...

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Surrogate Mothers According to Elaine Landau in the book " Surrogate Mothers" "A Surrogate mother is a woman who conceives, carries, and gives birth to a baby for another person." (Landau 9). 750 babies have been born through surrogacy at the center for surrogate mothers ("Frequently asked quest...

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After I was about 5 months pregnant I began to start having some complications with my pregnancy, and that sent me into premature labor with my daughter. ... We had the stress of having to work, go see our daughter who is about an hour and a half away daily, money was getting tight because of the traveling, finding sitters for the children we already had and I was on an emotional roller-coaster ride just from the stress and worry that came along with my pregnancy. ...

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Families over the last 50 years Increase in teen pregnancy Wider acceptance of non-traditional families: gay and lesbian headed families More single-mothers on welfare More divorce Economy has catalyzed enormous changes in family structure, from two -working parents to absentee parents; economy has a serious effect on family. ... This can be attributed to a higher rate of teen pregnancy and a higher rate of divorce. ...

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