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Desperately seeking help and advice on pregnancy and social services

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CalmDenimKoala · 12/04/2025 18:53

Hi, really hoping someone can help and sorry if it triggers any one.

I have just found out I'm pregnant, it was unplanned. 2 things:

  1. Social services were previously involved, everything was closed over a year ago, no further action or support needed or given. My partner thinks ss will get back involved if we continue with the pregnancy. Does anyone have any information or been through this or anything. I'm stressing, really don't want to go through that again, it was a bad experience, first sw was horrible and threatened to take children, put me on a plan, but when they changed the sw they instantly started shutting things down and said it was an overreaction and not needed and even other professionals at meeting agreed they didn't understand why we were going through it as not needed.
  1. My partner wants me to end the pregnancy but I'm not sure I can go through with that. I just don't know what to do, if I keep he'll reset me but if I do what he wants I think I'll regret it forever. I'm so stressed and confused and don't know where or who to turn to.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

OP posts:
SilverScales · 13/04/2025 13:38

Hi Koala, I'm sorry you're dealing with so much right now. I don't know a lot about social services; if I was you I'd try to go to some kind of pregnancy center. They can often give a free scan and may know more about the specific questions you're asking. But if you're asking if social services will get involved just because you had a red flag in the past, I'm pretty sure that's not how they work. Here's a webpage where you can find a pregnancy center nearest to you:
https://www.heartbeatinternational.org/worldwide-directory
I hope that your partner will listen to you and take your needs into account. Remind him that you are the one who will be most impacted by this decision and you should have the final say. No one should push a woman into aborting who does not wish to. You say he might resent you if you have the baby, but you will surely resent him if you abort just because he's demanding it. Your relationship will change either way. Hope you two can come to an understanding.

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