After those two thin red lines on the pregnancy test 12 months later, it was all worth it.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he would favour a change in the law to halve the limit on abortions from 24 weeks into a pregnancy to 12.
This month, Arkansas' legislature passed a bill banning abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Earlier this year, Arkansas became the first state to ban the procedure at 12 weeks of pregnancy.
The Federal Council of Medicine called for the legalisation of terminations during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
The lower house of Uruguay's Congress has voted to legalise abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Earlier in March, the Republican-controlled legislature in the state of Arkansas enacted tough abortion laws, banning the procedure after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
The Spanish parliament rejected, by one vote, a bill that would have made available abortion on demand during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
In the UK, 12% of mothers continued to smoke throughout their pregnancy in 2010, down from 17% in 2005.
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No extra calories are needed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy and only an extra 200kcal per day are required during the last 12 weeks, the equivalent of two small slices of bread.
It may be reassuring to know, however, that shingles shortly after pregnancy should not cause problems for infants because specific maternal antibodies protect them until about 9 to 12 months of age.
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North Dakota's law, which would ban most abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, goes even further than a bill approved earlier this month in Arkansas that establishes a 12-week ban prohibiting them when a fetal heartbeat can be detected using an abdominal ultrasound.
Compared with women of similar height who maintain their weight, a 5-foot-4 woman who gains roughly 12 to 17 pounds after giving birth more than doubles her odds of developing diabetes during her second pregnancy, the study found.
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