{"id":243416,"date":"2021-04-18T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=243416"},"modified":"2021-04-18T20:27:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:27:29","slug":"mom-abandoned-life-guide-single-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mom-abandoned-life-guide-single-pregnant\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom writes guide for other single pregnant moms after she was abandoned for choosing life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman who faced an unexpected pregnancy and pressure to have an abortion wrote a guide for other single mothers in similar situations. Gabriella Sofia Buxton, 29, had been in an on-and-off relationship for four years with an ex-boyfriend when she realized she was pregnant \u2014 but he didn’t want to be a father. After going through the pregnancy alone, and raising her son without his father, Buxton’s book about her experience became an Amazon bestseller.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Mirror<\/a>, Buxton, a yoga teacher, said she had realized she was pregnant in May of 2018. Her boyfriend didn’t want to parent, but also had agreed with Buxton about no longer using birth control, because of the negative effect it was having on her body. She said her first instinct had been to have an abortion.<\/p>\n

“Dazed, I told him the news briefly in a phone call. There was an assumption that I\u2019d have a termination and our relationship would continue,” she said. “But fate intervened. At the clinic, they told me it was too early to take the abortion pill \u2013 they had to ensure it was a viable pregnancy first, not an ectopic pregnancy.”<\/p>\n

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Buxton traveled to Italy to teach a yoga course, with her boyfriend due to meet her there later. But that time apart gave her the chance to realize that she wanted to keep her baby. “When he arrived at the Airbnb, it was late and we went to sleep,” she recalled. “But the next day, I said, ‘What\u2019s the worst case scenario about me having the baby?’ And he said, ‘That is the worst case scenario.’ I asked, ‘What\u2019s the best case scenario?’ He replied, ‘There isn\u2019t one.'”<\/p>\n

It turned out that her boyfriend would leave her in the cruelest way; after she went for a walk, she came back to find out he had booked a flight home. “It was the middle of the night and I was pregnant and crying on the pavement outside an Italian Airbnb,” she said. “My boyfriend David [an alias] had just left me because I\u2019d wanted to talk about why I might want to go through with my unexpected pregnancy. I felt like I was looking down on myself from above, watching us hug and cry, hearing him tell me he loved me but couldn\u2019t cope with the situation. I could see him getting into the taxi and speeding off. And me, left behind, feeling broken and alone, in shock, thinking, ‘Did that really just happen?'”<\/p>\n

Yet Buxton still remained strong. “When the doctor told me everything was going perfectly, it confirmed keeping the baby was the right thing to do,” she said. “I had one final conversation with David, telling him my decision, and I haven\u2019t seen him since.”<\/p>\n