Experiencing Pregnancy

Are you or a partner (or have you recently been) a pregnant person, or are you or they considering pregnancy? Here's a range of information about the diverse experience of pregnancy, including help navigating some common but often challenging things, like post-partum depression, finding care providers and helpers, including for abortion, navigating sex and relationships and pregnancy loss.

Advice
  • Stephanie

It's not likely for a person to be pregnant and still menstruate -- especially past very early pregnancy -- though some people will experience some vaginal bleeding (which is not the same as menstruation, or a period) during pregnancy. Part of the problem is that many people term any vaginal...

Advice
  • Susie Tang

The difference is that PMS symptoms won't cause your pregnancy test to turn positive. Using symptoms to determine if you're pregnant is really unreliable. If you absolutely must know if you're pregnant, wait 10 to 14 days after the sexual encounter in question then take a pregnancy test using the...

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

Elydia: I'm so sorry you're having to go through this with so little support. Being pregnant can be scary enough for anyone, even when it's wanted, but it's even more overwhelming when you're going it alone. First of all, understand that NO ONE can force you to abort, or make your reproductive...