Pregnancy — 50% planned; 50% unplanned

By dancingthrupregnancy | Published February 28, 2009

So…are you plan­ning to become preg­nant? For the last decade, preg­nancy has been in a 50/50 sit­u­a­tion. That is, about half the preg­nan­cies occur­ring in the U.S. are planned. The rest? Well, not nec­es­sar­ily unwel­come, but def­i­nitely unplanned.

Will this change in the cur­rent reces­sion (or as a friend said today, Let us just call it a depres­sion and move on)? So far, it is clear that preg­nancy rates are not drop­ping, despite an unwill­ing­ness to spend money on many other things. What does this say?

Once again, despite liv­ing in a high tech world, hav­ing babies is a pri­mal expe­ri­ence. It does not dimin­ish when resources are scarce.

So, plan to or not, if you have a baby dur­ing this depres­sion, do not waste your money. Fig­ure out how to have a healthy pregnancy.

Next on the Preg­nancy Path­way: the act of conception.

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  1. Leslie Blatteau
    Posted May 12, 2009 at 2:08 am | Permalink

    Research has emerged (must find source) that tell us half of women in their 20s do not know which time in their cycle is when they could most likely become preg­nant. Hmm­mmm.…… And half of preg­nan­cies are unplanned. I won­der if there is a unsci­en­tific cor­re­la­tion between these sets of data. What I am try­ing to say is thank you to Ann and Robin for your work in shed­ding light on how our bod­ies work. Keep it up and we will keep on reading!