Chapter Highlights for My Life, My Body: Sex Ed Made Easy - Pregnancy

Welcome to the next blog in the series - Chapter Highlights for My Life, My Body: Sex Ed Made Easy.

This blog is about chapter nine - Pregnancy.

Pregnancy in this chapter is broken down into easy to understand pieces of information. It might surprise you, but I have worked with many client’s who were unsure -

a. how a pregnancy occurs and

b. that once a pregnancy begins, the DNA (parents) cannot be changed. Even if there is a new partner.

The trauma and grief from thinking that a baby that was once yours is no longer, is very real for people that are unaware of how a pregnancy works.

Ensuring people have a good understanding from the very beginning was the goal of this chapter. Highlighting that we cannot see with our eyes when it is happening and only the female body will experience symptoms of pregnancy.

Contraception and proper use of condoms is reinforced where the people engaging in penis in vagina intercourse are wanting to avoid pregnancy. Followed by where to buy pregnancy tests if the female thinks they are pregnant.

Unwanted pregnancy options are kept open with advice to discuss options with a doctor, while miscarriage is communicated in a simple way, and grief is normalised at this point.

The average nine months of pregnancy are then broken down with average foetal development being described. It was important not to describe symptoms of the female at this stage because everyone experiences it differently.

The reader gains an understanding as to why the baby is upside down in the womb as it grows bigger and labour is described in easy to understand language, with pictures.

Again, with the labour experience being so different for everyone, the information is concise and generalised so as to not give expectations for expecting parents.

My life, My Body: Sex Ed Made Easy is available now to download onto a phone, iPad or tablet device.

Not only does it make comprehensive sexual health education easy, it also supports the reader to have privacy while learning.