Nonviolent Choice Directory: Help With Crisis Pregnancy & Beyond: An Overview

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HELP WITH CRISIS PREGNANCY & BEYOND: AN OVERVIEW

This section covers concerns that often face women in unplanned/crisis pregnancies. You are welcome to visit as many or as few of these pages as you find helpful to your own unique situation. You can visit--and bookmark and revisit--this section of the Directory at whatever pace fits you and your life.

If you are in a crisis state right now, please remember that in most pregnancy situations, you can take a deep breath and face your difficulties step by step. Even though things may be quite urgent, you probably will not need to decide and do everything all at once. Although it can certainly feel as if you have to!

Crisis Pregnancy Support (for when you are in, or suspect you might be in, a difficult pregnancy)

Mother & Child Health (during & after pregnancy) (among other things, includes disability, mental health, and a section on health care access by country--this last one gives links about government health benefits and other ways to fund pregnancy and after-pregnancy care for yourself and your baby)

Parenting/Childrearing

Adoption, Foster Care, & Guardianship (includes US-based information on open adoption, and much else)

Food & Nutrition (includes, among other things, emergency help & growing your own food)

Clothing (covers emergency help and much else)

Shelter (includes emergency help and much else)

Finances & Income (among other things, includes government benefits by country, and child support, also known as child maintenance in some countries)

Education (among other things, includes help for pregnant and parenting students, and military service alternatives)

Employment/Career (covers child care resources, and military service alternatives, along with much else)

Relationships (includes domestic violence resources and other concerns)

These other sections of the Directory may also be helpful for you.

Post Abortion Care. If you are pregnant now, we are here to help you find a better way than abortion. We suggest this section for two reasons. If you are considering abortion now, you might first wish to learn more about the physical, psychological, and spiritual aftereffects. Also, if you have experienced past abortion(s) (or maybe other pregnancy losses), your current pregnancy can bring up unresolved feelings and issues. This can be both difficult--and an opportunity for healing the past and freeing up the present and future.

Male Responsibility. Such a giant issue, in so many aspects of life, including pregnancy and its aftermath...

Sexual/Reproductive Health Education. The learning never ends.

Pregnancy Prevention Another conception can happen surprisingly soon after childbirth, and you may feel that's way too soon for you to have another child. Or you may feel that you are done with having biological children altogether and you are ready now, after you have birthed this child, for a permanent method of birth countrol.

How Anyone & Everyone Can Help. Whether and when and how is of course up to you. You might not feel you are in a position to right now. But you are free to look at what we have and decide for yourself, whenever you wish. An example: We have resources on Eco Friendly Living. These can help you and your baby become and stay healthier, at the same that your actions benefit other people, including other mothers and children, and other living beings.

Free and Low-Cost Internet and Computing Resources. If you haven't quite bridged the digital divide yet,these resources may help you get across and keep using the Internet for information and support.

Mall. Here you can look for deals on baby's and children's stuff, maternity and nursing goods (including an herbal remedy for morning sickness), household items, personal care and wellness, family planning and safer sex products, and even more life-affirming things.