Women expecting a child may feel a wide range of emotions: From happiness and hope to anxiety and fear. Often, negative reactions come from concerns about financial stability and the health of mother and baby.
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TORRINGTON – Women expecting a child may feel a wide range of emotions: From happiness and hope to anxiety and fear. Often, negative reactions come from concerns about financial stability and the health of mother and baby.
The Life Choice Pregnancy Center of Cheyenne aims to address these worries by offering women information and testing at no cost to them when its mobile medical unit visits Torrington next week.
The event kicks off Thursday, Feb. 21 at Lifeway Church at 1431 East M St. in Torrington. Life Choice Pregnancy Center staff will offer a “Legacy for Life” informational presentation from 9 to 10 a.m., followed by free pregnancy testing and ultrasounds from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A registered nurse will conduct pregnancy tests and ultrasounds for women who think they may be pregnant, at no charge.
“There are three things the nurse can tell you: If it’s a tubular pregnancy; about how far along you are; and if you’re pregnant,” Jan Long, Goshen County Right To Life President, explained. Nurses will not identify the sex of the baby.
The clinic also provides local referrals to doctors and nutritional programs and pregnancy options, in addition to pregnancy decision coaching.
“I think it’s important because it’s … no-charge,” Long added. “The women or the girls who use it don’t pay anything for it.
“Wheatland and Pine Bluffs already have the (Life Choice mobile medical unit) set up to come once a month. We’re trying to get Torrington in the mix of having them come here.”
Long said local volunteers will be necessary to make this a reality. At its headquarters in Cheyenne, Life Choice Pregnancy Center also offers parenting classes and rewards for attending the classes to be used toward new items for mother and baby.
“If the communities that they’re serving can get involved with their own citizens, they can swing it,” Long said.
In the future, the medical unit also plans to offer sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment.
More information will be available at Thursday’s presentation. To reserve a seat, call (307) 632-6323, or contact Long at (307) 575-2069 for details.