Pregnancy Stories

Foreign couple overcomes international concerns in making pregnancy decision

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In March, a young couple arrived at Women’s Center – East in Dayton, Ohio to take a confidential pregnancy test. In their late twenties, they had just arrived in the U.S. and were living with relatives, each having acquired a visa to work in the United States. In their country, as soon as a woman [...]

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Everywhere a Baby

Being too young to have lived through the fabled Baby Boom of my parents’ era, I, of course, have no idea how it seemed to those young, newly married couples just starting their families. These days, more than ever, I wonder if they realized that they were helping to spur on the “Baby Boom,” making [...]

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Wearing Our Baby–Can’t Beat It!

Until about a month after we found out we were expecting, neither of us had ever heard of baby wearing. Nobody but the two of us and the dentist (I used to always get the nitrous oxide during procedures…bad idea, with a baby) knew about the baby, since this was our first, and we didn’t want to go [...]

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