You don’t have to be a teenager to need help.  Choices are just as hard when you’re older.

Michelle's advice: Setbacks are temporary, but the reward of seeing your daughter's smile each morning when she wakes up is permanent.

At thirty five, with two teenage sons, Michelle couldn’t imagine starting over.  Her sister was of some support, but since her mother had died, she felt alone.  The baby’s father said he would pay for an abortion and she was seriously considering it.  She looked in the phone book under abortion alternatives and contacted Choices.

After talking with one of the counselors who had a baby herself at the age of eighteen, she realized that she could do this!  But there would be many struggles ahead.  Being pregnant at thirty-five was harder on her body than when she was eighteen or twenty-three.  She was forced on bed rest and lost her job and car because of it.  She also lost many friends who couldn’t understand how she could put her other two children through all this.  But, Michelle knew she was doing the right thing for all of them.

She had seen her daughter’s fingers moving on the sonogram and her little legs crossed in the womb.  She knew that she would find a way to do this on her own.  When her daughter was born, Michelle just cried and cried.  She didn’t think that little baby Demi would ever get here, but it was all worth while.  They still struggle, but with the help of Choices, they are making it. Michelle now has a great job and has made many wonderful new friends who, along with the counselors at Choices, are helping her to know the Lord.   And for her friends who questioned how her sons would react, she’s happy to report that they can’t walk by their little sister without kissing her.