What Comes Next

Articles About What Comes Next in Your Pregnancy Journey

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Surprising Women’s Health Benefits at Choices Pregnancy Center

Women are fascinating and complex human beings. Their health involves the entirety of their bodies, minds, and spirits. It makes sense, then, that serving “women’s health” would promote the well-being of all three facets of a woman. At Choices Pregnancy Center, we promote women’s health in multiple ways.

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Resilient Kids and How to Raise Them

You’ve seen resilient children: the ones who fall down and get back up. The ones who try something, fail, and try again. Resilient kids are problem-solvers. They face the future with confidence and hold onto hope when things get tough. Would you like to raise your child to be resilient too?

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Preventing Child Abuse When Tension Rises

Quarantined by COVID? Stuck at home in nasty weather? Laid up, laid off, or otherwise unable to get away from home? Then watch out for rising tension, one of the most common triggers of child abuse.

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Powerful Connections: When Your Friends Have Friends

When you face a crisis, you find out how powerful connections are. It goes back to the old saying, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Sometimes, who you know makes the difference between succeeding and failing in tough times.

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The Challenge: Say I Love You Without Sex

A whole lot of people are handicapped by the perception that the best way to say “I love you” is by having sex. How crazy is that? There are literally hundreds of ways to give and receive love. And if we want strong, happy, and healthy relationships, we’ll take the time to figure out

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Parenting: Your Adventure in Changing the World

Do you ever dream of doing something so great that it changes the world? You know, something people would look up to you for—the way they do human rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. or computer genius Bill Gates, or scientist Louis Pasteur? What if a world-changing accomplishment were within your reach?

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Get Free Coaching Toward the New Life You Want

Some people use New Year’s Day to set new goals for their lives. Then they watch those goals fizzle out a few days later. Other people have simply given up trying to achieve the kind of life they really want. But what if you actually could change your life? And what if you had someone […]

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Finding Support in Pregnancy or Infant Loss

The loss of a child-whether through miscarriage, infant death, or abortion-can be an emotionally dark time. Grieving parents respond in different ways, too. Some want to keep their child’s life in view at all times, while others want to tuck the memories away where few people can see them. There is no one right way […]

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5 Powerful Questions That Can Change Your Life

It happens to all of us. We do the same thing today that we did yesterday. And we don’t like how it turns out today any more than we liked it yesterday. Then tomorrow comes, and we do it all over again. Sometimes the “it” we do is how we handle relationships. Sometimes “it” is […]

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How to Quit Following the Crowd and Enjoy Sexual Integrity

Following the crowd has become something of a national pastime. For image-sensitive high school students it can be an obsession. The crowd tweets something and we retweet it. (Even if we’ve never checked to see if it’s actually true.) The crowd starts a fashion trend and we feel we’d better wear it too. We want […]

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Feeling Stuck? Your Life Coach Can Help

Finding out you’re pregnant can reveal a whole lot of things. . . . a weakness in your romantic relationship. . . .the downside of some lifestyle choices. . . . the feeling you’re stuck in a rut. And you want out. But how can you change your life’s direction? We Get By With a […]

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How to Support Breastfeeding Mothers You Know

Even though breastfeeding is one of the best things mothers can do for their babies, many moms find it hard to continue doing it. They often give up long before they want to. The reason? They don’t have enough support. This year’s focus for National Breastfeeding Month is “Support Changes Everything“-a theme that resonates with […]