This blog doesn't need to be all Kardashian all the time, but it's worth noting in this space that not only is Kourtney Kardashian talking about her unplanned pregnancy, she is also talking about ambivalence and abortion - both incredibly common in these situations but both incredibly absent from most Hollywood baby bump coverage.

I don't know a whole lot about Kourtney - I don't watch her show and I'm not sure what sort of extraordinary things she's done to deserve a show - but what she told People magazine makes her sound like a normal person and not a creation of publicists:

"I definitely thought about it long and hard, about if I wanted to keep the baby or not, and I wasn't thinking about adoption."

"For me, all the reasons why I wouldn't keep the baby were so selfish: It wasn't like I was raped, it's not like I'm 16. I'm 30 years old, I make my own money, I support myself, I can afford to have a baby. And I am with someone who I love, and have been with for a long time."

That a "celebrity" would give voice to those feelings and ideas is refreshing because that's what we hear so often from regular people who live far outside the spotlight.

Less refreshing is what her doctor told her when she sought medical counsel about what to do: "My doctor told me there is nothing you will ever regret about having the baby, but he was like, 'You may regret not having the baby.' And I was like: That is so true."

One would hope that a physician would have a more balanced opinion about terminating an unplanned (and perhaps unwanted) pregnancy, but let's hope for the baby's sake the doctor was right this time.

I forgot to take my pill...

How many times has this thought crossed your mind?

Kourtney Kardashian recently announced that she is unexpectedly pregnant. While semi-celebrity baby bumps might not be that interesting to most, what's unusual is that she has admitted that the reason she got pregnant is because she used the pill inconsistently. In her own words Kourtney admits, "This probably sounds so dumb, but there's so many times I'll forget to take my pill and I don't think it's that big of a deal, it's just so stupid." While the birth control pill-- the most popular form of birth control in the U.S.--is very effective (you have a 99% chance of avoiding pregnancy if you take the pill), it is only as effective as the user. Nationally, nearly half of all women who have an unplanned pregnancy were using a method of contraception when they got pregnant. Digging a little deeper, half of women who have an unplanned pregnancy and birth admit that although they were using a method, they weren't using it correctly when they got pregnant.

For some of us, remembering to take the pill is easy and has become routine, but for others who are often forgetting to take their pill there might be another way. Consider other birth control options that experts often label as "forgettable". These include methods such as the vaginal ring, which is monthly, the IUD , which lasts 5-10 years, or the implant, which lasts up to 3 years. A method that I don't have to remember sounds great to me, what do you think?