Dating a guy while pregnant

I know I will eventually find my great match. I found out I was pregnant after we broke it off. We practiced safe sex, and yet here I am. I am already accustomed to being a single mom, and I always wanted a 3rd child, a dream that I thought I had to give up on when my husband left.

By Alyssa Garrison Oct 23, Courtesy of Flare. As a result, most articles seem to focus on how to get through the next nine months with some shred of sanity, and stress the importance of asking for help. Growing a human is a strange, uncomfortable, foreign endeavour even at the best of times. In my perhaps naive opinion, fear is the worst enemy of a healthy mom and healthy baby.

Every pregnant single woman has different circumstances. Some might be pregnant by choice, while others by accident. Some may have loved their baby's dad, while others may not have cared for him at all.

When I was pregnant, the last place I expected to find myself was on Tinder. Honestly, I still wanted to be desired by the opposite sex and have that feeling of wondering what a date might lead to—a hookup, a holiday romance, a love affair—rather than letting my pregnancy turn me into someone who was OK with feeling overlooked. Plus, my posse of girlfriends was neatly divided between those who were shacked up with long-term partners and those who were still hitting the playing field hard. What I wanted was to enjoy digital dating before my days were filled with changing nappies and taking naps.