{"id":9936,"date":"2017-10-06T10:35:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T09:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=9936"},"modified":"2017-10-06T10:35:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T09:35:16","slug":"talk-to-steph-i-am-pregnant-but-my-boyfriend-said-he-is-not-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=9936","title":{"rendered":"TALK TO STEPH: I AM PREGNANT BUT MY BOYFRIEND SAID HE IS NOT READY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hello Steph,<\/div>\n<div>I see that you allow your fans to seek advice on your platform. Thank you.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>This is my issue:<\/div>\n<div>I am 22 years old and presently doing my NYSC at Anambra state. I hooked up to this new guy and we decided to explore sex. I regret not using protection, I was very sure I was on my safe period, may be I miscalculated, but it happened and none of us was really prepared. One minute we are talking and the next minute&#8230; things happened. My menstrual cycle had delayed for two months and I was feeling funny. So I went for a test last week and I was confirmed pregnant. When I told my boyfriend, he said he is not ready to be a father now. He says he is not my boyfriend, that I was only an NYSC fling. That I should get rid of it and never come near him again.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>This is my dilemma: I lost a cousin last year when she was trying to get rid of a pregnancy. The gist spread through out my village. It was too embarrassing for the family; even up till now they still use it to warn us in my family. I am afraid. I don&#8217;t know what to do. I have no money and even if I did, I am afraid to do it.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>I can&#8217;t take care of a child. I have nothing. I&#8217;ve made the mistake, please I don&#8217;t want harsh words. The deed is done. What can I do now?<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Please advice. I am dreading telling my father. He will definitely disown me.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Help!<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Ijeoma<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Steph, I see that you allow your fans to seek advice on your platform. Thank you. &nbsp; This is my issue: I am 22 years old and presently doing my NYSC at Anambra state. I hooked up to this new guy and we decided to explore sex. I regret not using protection, I was very sure I was on my safe period, may be I miscalculated, but it happened and none of us was really prepared. One minute we are talking and the next minute&#8230; things happened. My menstrual cycle had delayed for two months and I was feeling funny. So I went for a test last week and I was confirmed pregnant. When I told my boyfriend, he said he is not ready to be a father now. He says he is not my boyfriend, that I was only an NYSC fling. That I should get rid of it and never come near him again. &nbsp; This is my dilemma: I lost a cousin last year when she was trying to get rid of a pregnancy. The gist spread through out my village. It was too embarrassing for the family; even up till now they still use it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-talk-to-steph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9938,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9936\/revisions\/9938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}