Story archives - tag: "pregnancy"

Just Ali

I had hoped that the first time my doctor handed me a sonogram picture it would be of my baby, not of a golf ball sized fibroid tumor on my uterus.

tags: pregnancy health infertility [add]

2008-09-26 15:44:21 / Rating: 75.75 /

Whoops

I deserved the false positive of the pregnancy test for leaving it in my car for two weeks in the Florida sun.

tags: scary pregnancy irony [add]

2008-07-17 09:19:20 / Rating: 96.5 /

jamie

When my "flu" suddenly caused my breasts to swell and become sore, I realized it may actually be morning sickness.

tags: pregnancy surprises sick [add]

2008-07-16 16:15:06 / Rating: 133.75 /

ashamed

Having no guilt over terminating a pregnancy is making me feel guilty.

tags: abortion sad pregnancy denial [add]

2008-05-30 10:10:37 / Rating: 145.25 /

ferdinandthebull

This morning, when my mom wasn't looking, I saw her put birth control in my sisters orange juice.

tags: disenchanted humor pregnancy [add]

2008-04-10 14:57:33 / Rating: 196.5 /

Not quite yet.

My boyfriend's mother looked longingly at her niece's pregnant belly and sighed heavily before casting a sideways glance in my direction.

tags: pregnancy not ready 20s grandmother love awkward [add]

2008-03-26 13:17:29 / Rating: 170 /

Not Anna

When the third test finally confirmed that I was pregnant, my strongest emotion was the righteous joy of having been right all along.

tags: pregnancy intuition vindication [add]

2008-03-19 10:04:02 / Rating: 101 /

forever child

It took me getting pregnant at 18 for my family to finally realize I'm not a child anymore.

tags: pregnancy family growing up [add]

2007-12-19 11:12:03 / Rating: 142.25 /

Javan

She had never been happier to start her period in her life.

tags: pregnancy relief first time [add]

2007-12-11 11:39:10 / Rating: 147 /

Death of Serenity

I realize now that his being a passionate person is no excuse for him trying to choke me to death when he found out i was pregnant.

tags: abuse pregnancy passion [add]

2007-12-07 15:07:38 / Rating: 291.5 /

Cupcake

"$8.59 is a very reasonable price for peace of mind," she thought as she pitched the negative pregnancy test in the trash.

tags: humor worry pregnancy [add]

2007-11-02 14:36:52 / Rating: 349.75 /

Bec

The fact that I have four children (three being non-identical triplets) after being told I was infertile, just proves that doctors can get things wrong!

tags: pregnancy infertility doctors morons babies lies [add]

2007-10-15 09:40:03 / Rating: 146.75 /

SS

He sat on the bed waiting for me to come out of the bathroom with a yes or a no, but all I could come up with when I finally emerged was a dismayed, "I can't tell!"

tags: pregnancy [add]

2007-06-19 13:59:08 / Rating: 131.75 /

VintageMama

I was 42 and single when I got pregnant for the first time and my very religious parents surprised me by being happy rather than disowning me.

tags: pregnancy parents religion surprise [add]

2007-01-22 12:39:51 / Rating: 199.5 /

revscrj

Two blocks of silence to the store we bought another EPT and a bottle of Rumplemintz, the big bottle.

tags: pregnancy relationships drinking [add]

2006-10-16 14:51:31 / Rating: 160.75 /

D. Jennifer Dawson

You were "my sweet baby" for nine months, but in those last five minutes my intuition finally sighed "She" and I knew.

tags: pregnancy mothering gender intuition beginnings [add]

2006-09-29 14:34:31 / Rating: 151.25 /

Splinket

My heart in my throat, I watched as that second blue line started to materialise before my eyes and I realised, this is it - the moment that would change everything I ever imagined the rest of my life to be.

tags: realization pregnancy anticipation love [add]

2006-09-27 10:02:32 / Rating: 181 /

Skye

"For you? Really?" the man in the pharmacy said, surprised, when I asked him to pass me a pregnancy test.

tags: humour humor pregnancy pharmacy chemist test surprise [add]

2006-09-23 12:01:40 / Rating: 708.25 /

N

I used to pray every month for my period to come, but recently I've started hoping it wouldn't.

tags: hope pregnancy period love sex [add]

2006-09-11 22:37:45 / Rating: 388.75 /

Stacey

It's hard not to be self conscious about your ever growing pregnant belly when a stranger's child asks their mother if "that lady is having twins."

tags: pregnancy humor [add]

2006-08-17 21:22:32 / Rating: 154.5 /

Stacey

A new mother's confidence about her body is shattered when a young child asks if she's still pregnant.

tags: pregnancy humor body weight [add]

2006-08-17 20:36:15 / Rating: 148.5 /