How To Tell If My GF Is Pregnant?

Damn! I read through all these posts just to find out if she was pregnant...the suspense is killing me...COME ON!

Here's an update for everyone. She is 15 weeks pregnant!

Congratulations! You still have time to get married before the baby's born...Not that I'm the example ...but the commitment is already there...just take it to the next step.

Looks like Andrew's got a few months to save some money

I am well prepared. We are going to move the wedding up closer now. We're going soon to get a ultrasound, and to see if it is a boy or girl.

What kind of insurance do the both of you have?

Andrew--

Ultra sounds are fun, but more important are regular visits to a doctor for pre-natal care. Pre-natal care is essential for both mother and baby.

Best wishes to you all.

Congratulations...

And no matter what anybody says, don't be pressured into marrying!
If you want to marry, it's supposed to be the most wonderful day of your life...
Your baby won't mind, if it's born before or after!

Well, of course the baby doesn't mind. Society does a job on folks, less or more depending on where they are.

I think most of us bringing up marriage here are primarily bringing up the question - are these people competent to raise children. Not that marriage would solve that, just that it's a question that an answer to could give us a clue, even in some cases, an anti marriage answer.

I see them in dreamworld 101.

I just want to throw this in here-


I am 31. Not married (legally) and we have a 3 year old child and have been together 7 years.

We dont believe in this whole religious concept of marriage being a necessity for a couple to go through.

Legally though.. is another story.

In the event that he ever died, I would NOT get a single drop of his insurance coverage, his left over income, and I might be locked out of our bank account completely.

Our daughter MIGHT, but a DNA test would have to prove that she is truly is child. And then, what ever she does recieve, we could not live off of as it would be put away until she was 18, or what ever legal age is seen necessary by the court.

For those legal reasons alone, marriage is next to a necessity.
So, dont feel pressured to do it as a label or brand to society.

Your relationship is not made better for it and it doesnt effect " your soul"

Just make sure that you are aware of the effects if one of you ever dies and you are living a life where you heavily depend on the others income.

Exactly.

Bohne, I also am curious on those grounds. If they say, "We just don't plan on ever getting married because it's an outdated social construct and we don't need a piece of paper to make our undying love for each other official," cool. (There are, I believe, some legal ways to get around what Shewolf mentions without getting married, especially via wills, though I'm no expert there.) I'm definitely not saying that everyone who has a child must get married.

However, Andrew and his girlfriend seem to be in the thick of a romantic notion of parenthood and marriage that I fear is unrealistic and doomed to failure unless they get a grip.

Don't know anything for sure, but given Andrew's history here and his recounting of the story so far, a big concern.

OK, as usual, you have been doing your homework better than me!
I hardly ever check into a persons history here, unless I have reasons to believe something is wrong!
Usually I'm just breezing through and don't have that much time anyway!

Now after looking through old posts for a while, I am wondering...

Well, maybe I better keep my thoughts to myself!

How To Tell If My GF Is Pregnant

Your Grand Father is pregnant?

Mostly I just happened to remember -- someone here (Chai?) jogged my memory early on in the thread.

Here's an update. She isnt 15 weeks pregnant. She is only 6 or 7 weeks. The health department was wrong. She went to the doctor because she was sick. And, they told her she was only 6 or 7 weeks.

Andrew--

All the more time to plan.

Has she made arrangements for pre-natal care?

Another update. We have went to the doctor, and we found out she is 7 weeks and 4 days pregnant. Yes, she has went and and pre-natal care. She now has them. We got wic, and she is now on medicaid. And, I now have health insurance through my job, too.

That's good.

Having insurance is a necessity.

As is pre-natal care.

Being good parents starts before birth.