unplanned pregnancies

Unplanned Pregnancy Cake Topper
Baby Showers

Unplanned Pregnancy Cake Topper: Tasteless or Sign of the Times?

Cheeky "Oops!" cake topper in aisle four of the craft store!
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Cheeky "Oops!" cake topper in aisle four of the craft store! Is mama celebrating a shotgun wedding or a surprise pregnancy? It's hard to tell, but I spied this decoration and wondered what others would make of it. What's your take, is it tasteless to celebrate an unplanned pregnancy with brazen decorations and jokes, or just an honest sign of the times?

Unplanned Pregnancy Statistics
Pregnancy

Surprise Pregnancy: Do You Know the Facts?

For all of the planning, temperature taking, and charting many women go through to become pregnant, unplanned pregnancies also happen.
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For all of the planning, temperature taking, and charting many women go through to become pregnant, unplanned pregnancies also happen. Fifty-eight percent of LilSugar readers have had surprise pregnancies and shows like MTV's 16 and Pregnant make accidental pregnancies more evident. Test your knowledge by taking this quiz.

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Treatment of Unplanned Pregnancies
parenting

Study Says Surprise Pregnancy Children Are Treated Different

Mothers can study birth control options, monitor their cycles and try to carefully map out family expansion, but surprise pregnancies still happen.
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Mothers can study birth control options, monitor their cycles and try to carefully map out family expansion, but surprise pregnancies still happen.

Though most parents joke about it later, a new study in the journal of Child Development reveals that unexpected babies – both those that weren't planned at all and those that did not occur when their parents expected them – receive "fewer resources than intended siblings," including parental support and learning materials like books and puzzles.  The study goes on to say that "Parents’ stress and lack of patience may be directed explicitly toward an unwanted child."

Would an unplanned pregnancy alter your treatment of that offspring?

Did You Have a Surprise Pregnancy?
Pregnancy

Did You Have a Surprise Pregnancy?

Families happen whether they are planned or not!
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Families happen whether they are planned or not! While some couples carefully orchestrate conception, other women end up pregnant as a result of miscalculated dates, birth control gone awry or other reasons. Sometimes the surprise ends up being a family secret. Did you have an unplanned pregnancy?

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Would You Tell Your Child If He or She Was a Surprise?
parenting

Would You Tell Your Child If He or She Was a Surprise?

I have more than one friend that refers to herself as "an accident" and all are fine with the knowledge.
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I have more than one friend that refers to herself as "an accident" and all are fine with the knowledge.

Odd age gaps between siblings or parents telling them they were a "welcomed surprise" are two telltale signs.

But regardless of age, does a child need to know that they are the result of a missed pill or condom breaking?

Would you tell your tot that they were the result of an unplanned pregnancy?

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