Natascha

They were shocked of course, especially my mother. She was very stressed in the period before and shortly after the abortion. My stephfather didn't say anything, other then that it was a stupid mistake for me to get pregnant (me and the boyfriend I had, had sex without condom and I didn't take anything like a pill of some kind, so my stephfather was right).
I also told a close friend of mine what I was going through, she wasn't very shocked just very understanding.
I'm glad I told my friend, that realy helped getting the stress away. I knew I could trust her and this even made our bond stronger, because she has still kept it secret.

I could eat for a few hours before the abortion, because I got anastetics to put me to sleep and for the pain. I had a conversation with a woman about how I got pregnant and she made an echo to see how old the vertilized eggcell was. Then I was given some calming medicine and had to take on those typical hospital skirt-like-thing. I was taken into a room were I had to lay down on a sort of dentist chair. There they gave me the anastetics and after a few seconds I was gone. An hour later I woke up in a bed totally confused. It took some minutes before I regained whole of my conscience and realized why I was there. Then some women helped me to go to the toilet. I was still a bit dizzy and could fall. Than I dressed myself and went down to my mother. Just untill that moment when I saw my mother again, I hadn't realized it was all over, no more stress about the pregnancy etc. My mother had to stay downstairs all the time. Only patients were allowed to go up. This made it somewhat easier for me, so I didn't have to be reminded of everything everytime I saw her.
Usually women are feeling ill/weak the day after their abortion, but I didn't at all. I didn't notice any side-effects. My life just went on again like usual.

I was only fourteen years old when I got pregnant. The boyfriend I had at that time and me wanted so badly to have sex one day that we didn't want to go and by some condoms first. We had a relation about 2 months at that time. A week after we split up, it was a boring relationship, we had different interesses. And then I noticed I was suposed to have my menstruation that week, but it didn't come. After 4 days of waiting I told my mom I thought I could be pregnant. We immediately went to get a test. And it was positive. Then we arranged an abortion with the abortion clinic close to our town with the doctor.
I felt that I was just too young to be a mother. I've got a good education and don't want that too fail because a stupid decision (not using a condom). I also felt that my mom would have to help me too much with the child, because I was so young. I didn't want to give her that burden.
And also, I never told my ex-boyfriend, so the child would be without a father.

I was very affraid, because I heard so much could go wrong, but I now know that most of those stories aren't true. Except when you don't let it be done by a professional clinic/ hospital / doctor. If you do, you don't need to worry about anything. I was ashamed for what my mother thought of me after she heard I was pregnant. But I never felt guilt towards the unborn cellgroup (it was just 4 to 5 weeks old, so still a clump of cells, not a real human being yet), I felt this was the best for me and I feel that if you get a child. You should first make sure YOU are okay before you can have a child. If you aren't ready or able to raise a child, than abortion is the best thing. I didn't want a child that would have a troublesome life. So I felt quite peaceful having abortion. And I was very sure with my decision. And still am very happy and relieved I finally made a right decision once in my life.