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Quick Links | Post Abortion | Miscarriage | Resources
Client Services & Programs
- Free Pregnancy tests - with immediate results
- Pregnancy options information
- Maternity and baby supplies through our BABY Program
- Childbirth Education class referrals
- Parenting class referrals
- Community referrals for medical care, legal assistance, housing
- Misscarriage support
- Post Abortion Recovery assistance
- One-on-one Abstinence Education
- Let’s Talk Abstinence Education program and support
- 24-hour national Options Line (counseling, email, & instant messenger)
Information on
- Pregnancy
- Fetal Development
- Abortion Risks and Procedures
- Adoption
- Post Abortion Care
- Healthy Relationships/Sexual Integrity
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Spiritual Guidance
- Decision-making
Building Accountability for Baby and YOU (BABY)
Being a parent today is a huge responsibility, but also a great joy. With the support of caring people, training, and other resources, many women find the help they need to make this choice. PCC is here to help! We offer an incentive program for clients to teach parental responsibility and accountability. The program promotes the importance of keeping scheduled doctors appointments while you are pregnant and for your baby once he or she is born. Our program can be custom-tailored to the individual’s situation to fit your individual needs. Clients can earn “BABY Points” to shop for maternity and baby clothing, supplies, diapers, furniture, baby layettes, and handmade quilts, etc. Dads are welcome, too!
Participation/Eligibility Requirements: Only Pregnancy Care Center clients and their husbands or partners are eligible to enroll in the BABY program. The program is available to expectant parents until their child is 24 months old.
Post Abortion Care
Many women (and men) experience strong emotional effects after an abortion. They may have feelings of sadness, grief, guilt, or loss. These can show up weeks, months, or even years after an abortion. This is called Post-Abortion Stress (PAS).
Self-Assessment: How Do I Know I Need Help?
- How have you changed since your abortion?
- Do you struggle in relationships?
- Do you fight to keep your emotions (anger, fear, grief) in control?
- Do you hide your abortion or your feelings about it?
- If someone you knew was considering abortion, what would you tell her now about your experience?
- Did someone pressure you to have the abortion?
- Are you fighting a deep sense of sadness and sorrow?
- Has your relationship with God changed?
Symptoms of Post Abortion Stress include:
- Thoughts of suicide or suicide attempts
- Guilt/shame - trying to bury the truth
- Emotional numbness – withdrawing
- Participating in high risk behaviors (alcohol/drug abuse, eating disorders, promiscuity)
- Avoiding baby reminders or failing to bond with subsequent children
- Feeling all alone and helpless
- Trying to be 'supermom'
- Nightmares, fears, inability to make decisions
If you are suffering from any of these symptoms, please know you are not alone. We care and are here to help. Please contact us today for free and confidential assistance.
Grieving After a Miscarriage
When a baby is lost through a miscarriage, most mothers – and fathers – need to be given “permission to grieve.” Too often, well-meaning individuals minimize the loss- as if, somehow, the fact that the child was never carried to term makes him or her unimportant (or, at least, far less important). Yet the grief and sense of loss can be just as strong and prolonged as with the death of an older child or other relative.
Whether they are experienced immediately or later, the emotional and psychological responses to a miscarriage typically parallel those of any significant loss. In particular, the cycle of grief needs to be accepted and completed in order for healing to occur. Many who have studied the grief process delineate five stages one must navigate: shock and denial, anger, depression and detachment, dialogue and bargaining, and (finally) acceptance. It’s important to note that these “stages” seldom are experiences in a linear progression, but rather tend to occur in spiraling cycles until the loss is resolved.
Receiving permission to grieve and acknowledging the loss are crucial. Otherwise, the bereaved person can get “stuck” in denial, repressed emotions, or depression, which can greatly impact one’s spiritual, emotional and physical health.
Women who have lost a baby sometimes feel guilty-and relive the pregnancy, trying to recall what they might have done (or not done) that could have caused the miscarriage. With rare exceptions, such as drug or alcohol abuse or gross malnutrition, such guilt is unfounded and is simply a normal maternal reaction.
Resources
We’ve gathered a list of online resources that we hope you will find useful. These resources are listed as a convenience to our visitors. We take no responsibility and give no guarantees, warranties, or representations, implied or otherwise, for the content or accuracy of any third party sites.
Sexual Resources
Pregnancy Resources
Boyfriend/Father Resources
Parent Resources
Abortion Resources
Morning After Pill Resources
Adoption Resources
Post-Abortion Recovery Resources
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