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hi my name is elizabth and i am a teenage mother. i had my daughter when i was sixteen so i fell pregnant when i was 15.
it's unbelievable how much crap you get at my age about being pregnant or having a child yet funny enough there are alot of older people out there having children who are doing a worse job than us. i get so sick and tired of filthy looks or when someone mistakes my daughter for my little sister and i correct them the coments i get about my age.
noone really knows the circumstances behind ure pregnancy at such a young age and as far as i am concerned it is really none of their business.
if someone decides to fall pregnant or if they fall pregnant quiet by accident and they decide that thy want their child well then that should be their decision.
when i was pregnant i had my boyfriend leave me i had my doctor tell me that i was to young to have a child, and then proceeed to give me a letter with numbers for abrtion clinics. i had my mother tell me that i was too young and that she would adopt my child and i could just be big sister. even my dad offered athough i would still have been mum my daughter would have just been in their care. pretty much everyone was telling me that i wasnt allowed to keep my baby for myself they automatically assumed i would give up my child as so many other pple do.
well they were WRONG!!!!!!!
my daughter, shakaiya, is my life even before she was born i knew she was the best thing to happen to me.
i noticed while i was pregnant that i finally found out who my real friends were. the people who stayed my friends didnt care that i wouldnt go out to a party they didnt care that i was getting fat. the point is they only cared about me. and my baby( their potential neice). even my family turned away from me in their eyes i was a dissapointment and i am now the black sheep of most of my family.
after i had my daighter there was still stuff going on. i got abused by ne of the nurses in the hospital because i couldnt breast feed my child. got called a bad mother and then the nurse convenientally forgot to put my form in for my newborn photo;s.
it is ABSOLOUTELLY wrong how pple treat teenage mothers or families.
my point is that no matter what, you should never let someone tell you how to live your life or your childs. i mean it is different if they are helping.
to all teenage parents there is help out there and support. we dont need to live with the constant scrutiny and bad feeling.
if you need someone to tal to or just someone who will listen or be your friend there are teenage mothers groups out there where you can get advice and meet other pple in our predicament. never give up hope and just always remember that you are perfect the way you are and there is nothing you cant do if you dont try.
x0x0x0 mammabee
(November 2008) (
