Title: Night Sweats
Subtitle: An Unexpected Pregnancy
Description: Laura Crossett was thirty-five years old, one month into a relationship, and six months into a new job when she sat in a staff bathroom and looked at a stick that told her something she already suspected.

Almost half the pregnancies that occur in the United States each year are unplanned. Some of them happen to married women, some to unmarried; some occur due to failure to use contraception; some due to contraceptive failure. Some happen to women who hope one day to have children; some to women who never wanted children at all. 

In a political climate that polarizes around issues of sexuality and choice and a popular culture that glamorizes pregnancy and fetishizes motherhood, we rarely hear the stories of women who did not seek to become pregnant. Night Sweats is one of them.
Subjects: pregnancy, unplanned pregnancy, mental health, mental illness, depression, Christianity, Single mothers, Biography, Unmarried mothers, Unwanted pregnancy, Case studies, Pregnant women, Mères de famille monoparentale, Biographies, Mères célibataires, Grossesse non désirée, Études de cas, Femmes enceintes, Santé mentale, Intrauterine contraceptives
Places: Iowa City
Time periods: 2011