Thursday, January 12, 2012

Drinking While Pregnant

I had a beautiful married couple come in our Manhattan office. They have a wonderful relationship.

They are newly weds.

As I started the consultation, I found out that she has missed a period and has not yet taken a pregnancy test.

Our services provide free pregnancy tests for the girls.
So I gave her a test. It came out positive. We continued the consultation.

The husband was so in tune to what was going on . He kept asking all different types of questions about the baby, the 2 of them getting jobs, etc.

The biggest concern the 2 of them had was due to the fact that she didn't know she was pregnant, she drank a lot of alcohol during the first 3 weeks. When we were discussing the side effects, she was very upset and began to cry.

They were actually considering getting an abortion because they were afraid their baby was going to have a birth defect. We discussed that neither one of them believes in abortion nor wants to get one. So why would they do one now?

It's a risk you have to be willing to take I told them, but it's a healthy risk. The UNhealthy risk would be going in for an abortion. They have decided to keep the baby. 

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