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"a baby story", pregnancy journals, baby books, websites, and pregnancy/parenting magazines tend to illustrate the happy couple experiencing their pregnancy and birth together - going through your pregnancy and birth experience without a partner, can leave you feeling isolated. This is why I decided to create this website. This website and online community is geared for women who find themselves alone during pregnancy and after the birth of their child.Whether it's by choice or by circumstances beyond our control, ( a loss of a partner due to breakups, death or separated by distance) we all have one thing in common- we are single and pregnant or single mothers, and looking for information and support on bringing up healthy, well-adjusted children. We are also looking for others who are going through this situation, to get us through the experience with grace, compassion and new found strength.. I hope this website and online community helps you along the way.

I am now the proud single mother of a little boy, Jackson, born in December of 2005. I have learned alot since starting this website in the summer of 2005 and I hope to impart some of that wisdom to women who are just now finding out they are in the same boat.

Less than 48 hours after packing my bags and leaving a doomed relationship, I found out I was pregnant. The father of my child did not want to be involved and was seeing another woman when I left him. I never thought I'd be in this situation. Scared of going it alone, I have found out that there is little support and information out there for women choosing to raise our babies without the father, and how to deal with the prospect of experiencing pregnancy, birth and child rearing alone.

I hope that by providing this site for women like you and I, it will provide much needed information, guidance and support to you and yours.

Here you'll find information on where to find support and resources. We've included relevant articles for single mothers and pregnant mothers like " A Single Pregnant Woman's Guide to Understanding Your Medical Costs" and Birth Announcement Etiquette for the Single Mom. Meet other single moms or soon to be moms on our message board and online community . Take a peek at my single and pregnant blog, or peruse fun sites to celebrate your pregnancy like creating an online pregnancy journal for free! - Show off your expanding tummy to friends and family around the world Keep track of your pregnancy with Babies Online's free pregnancy calendar, due date calculators and more!