Mother & Baby India

Single & pregnant?

Most women, when they find out they’re pregnant, are joyous and excited. But such was not the case with Anuradha, one of my oldest friends, who lives in Mumbai. She was beyond devastated. “I CAN’T have this baby! I don’t want this baby! How will I have a baby without a husband?” she cried on the phone. She had been in a relationship for two years and had just parted ways with her ex. “Why did this have to happen to me? Why couldn’t it have happened a year earlier when things were perfect?” she screamed once the tears had stopped.

I had no answers for Anuradha then. But I offered her my support in whatever decision she took. Now that I look at the life she’s

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