Your friend tells you she might be pregnant… what can you do?

• LISTEN -  you’re mostly likely the first person she’s told.
• HELP -  if she doesn’t know she’s pregnant for sure, offer to go along with her to the Pregnancy Resource Centre to do a test. Or if she already knows, be willing to go along with her to a doctor’s appointment or the PRC for options support.
• BE CONFIDENTIAL -  she needs to be able to trust you with her secret. Keep her secret safe, she’ll need time to process this news.
• ENCOURAGE -  this event will be life changing, no matter the outcome. She needs to know that through it all she will be okay, and that you will be there to support her however you can. Encourage her to talk to a trusted adult like a teacher or her parent. It’s important that you treat her the way you would want to be treated if you were in the same situation.
• REMEMBER -  that it’s HER decision to make, and that she will be the one that needs to live with her decision