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In my last two posts, I have talked about how to tell your baby’s dad you are pregnant and how to tell your parents you are pregnant.
Telling your friends you are pregnant may not seem as daunting as telling your baby’s daddy or your parents, but it can have its challenges as well. The challenges with your friends may not lie in how you tell them so much as to their reaction. Your friends reactions may vary from supportive, unsupportive to indifferent.
The reaction of your friends is so varied and it may depend on your age and the age of your friends.
- If you and your friends are teenagers, their reactions may go from shock and not knowing exactly what to say to the “awww” cute and cuddly baby stage.
- If you are collage age, your friends may feel relief that it’s happening to you and not them and your pregnancy may be a wake up call for them.
- If you have friends who are single mothers, they may be excited for you as they think of having another friend in their social circle who is a young parent.
For me personally, I really learned who my real friends were when I announced my unplanned pregnancy. Some friends stuck by me no matter what decision I was going to make while others pressured me to parent and others pressured me towards adoption and a few even pressured me to have an abortion.
Some of my friends were there for the long haul and we are still friends and some only wanted to be there when I was feeling good and those are the ones I am no longer friends with. It’s hard to deal with your friends, especially when you are loosing some, because you already have so much to deal with during an unplanned pregnancy.
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