One of the reasons you may be considering adoption is that your unborn baby may have been diagnosed with special needs. You may feel unequipped to parent a child with special needs.

During your pregnancy, you could find out that your child has a special need, a disability, or a medical condition, such as Down Syndrome or a heart condition or defect. Sometimes whatever may be wrong could be corrected after your baby is born and other times the problem may be uncorrectable and a life long condition, such as Down Syndrome.

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Pre-term or premature labor is defined as labor that occurs before 37 weeks of pregnancy is completed. This is too early for your baby to be born and can sometimes result in complications. The earlier your baby is born, the more complications he or she may have.

About twelve percent of all pregnancies – that’s one in eight pregnancies – result in the delivery of a premature baby. Babies who are born prematurely are at higher risk of needing hospitalization, having chronic lung problems, having long term health problems, and even death.

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You are sitting in the doctors office plumply pregnant, when all of the sudden your doctor says, "I think the best course of action at this point would be for you to begin bed rest!"

Bed rest!!!! Those two words that every pregnant woman dreads to hear. Unfortunately, it happens! One in five pregnant women are ordered to bed rest that lasts at least twenty weeks by their doctors.

I suffered through two pregnancies that both required bed rest. With my second son I was lucky and able to serve my bed rest sentence... more