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.
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.
I deserved the false positive of the pregnancy test for leaving it in my car for two weeks in the Florida sun.
When my "flu" suddenly caused my breasts to swell and become sore, I realized it may actually be morning sickness.
Having no guilt over terminating a pregnancy is making me feel guilty.
This morning, when my mom wasn't looking, I saw her put birth control in my sisters orange juice.
My boyfriend's mother looked longingly at her niece's pregnant belly and sighed heavily before casting a sideways glance in my direction.
When the third test finally confirmed that I was pregnant, my strongest emotion was the righteous joy of having been right all along.
It took me getting pregnant at 18 for my family to finally realize I'm not a child anymore.
She had never been happier to start her period in her life.
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.
"$8.59 is a very reasonable price for peace of mind," she thought as she pitched the negative pregnancy test in the trash.
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!
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!"
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.
Two blocks of silence to the store we bought another EPT and a bottle of Rumplemintz, the big bottle.
You were "my sweet baby" for nine months, but in those last five minutes my intuition finally sighed "She" and I knew.
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.
"For you? Really?" the man in the pharmacy said, surprised, when I asked him to pass me a pregnancy test.
I used to pray every month for my period to come, but recently I've started hoping it wouldn't.
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."