by Sara McGinnis posted in Celebrities

I found out I was pregnant in the bathroom of the first apartment my husband and I shared in college. Like many of you, I peed on a stick in my life changed forever -- but I also couldn't bring myself take the news as confirmed until someone more official had said it was so. That's how I ended up at our town's Planned Parenthood, an official note confirming my pregnancy in my shaking hand.
To say I was overwhelmed would have been an understatement. Yes, we were open to starting a family, but I truly never imagined it would happen so fast.
The next thing I knew the staff at the facility was setting me up with an appointment at a WIC office. At that point I couldn't have told you the name stood for Women Infants and Children, or what the program was about, but being a poor college student the idea of getting a little help didn't sound too bad. I already had all Work-Study job, what was the difference" By the following week I was set up in the WIC system, and shocked to find myself holding a debit card for food stamps. I hadn't even realized this was a possibility, and yet there I was -- status, income, and need meeting all of the requirements for assistance.
I felt a little weird about using a food stamp card at the grocery store, between groups of my peers buying cases of beer, but I also realized I was being given help because we qualified for it. In my mind it would have been foolish to turn it down and and cause my growing fami...