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Q: teenage pregnancy by accident or by design
asked by: chazzybum on April 1st, 2009
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I am a third year student at university studying Childhood and Youth. I have been asked to do a research project and have chosen to do teenage pregnancy.

I would be very grateful if you could just spare a few minutes of your time to answer the questions but please feel free to leave any questions that you dont want to answer. If you know anyone who has had a teenage pregnancy, please could forward on this message to them. Thank you.

If you dont want anyone here to see your answers, you can private message me. All information will be treated confidentially:


1) How old were you when you first became pregnant?

2) Was your pregnancy planned?

3) How did you feel when you found out you were pregnant?

4) Do you feel your pregnancy was due to:

* Lack of sex education
* Felt ready to have a baby
* Pressured to have sex
* Lack of knowledge about contraception
* Alcohol related
* Drug related
* None of these, other reason (please state)

5) Who was the first person you told?

6) How did they support you?

7) Did you get support from anywhere else?

Cool What other support did you feel you needed?

9) Did you have any friends in the same situation as you at the same time? If yes, how did they help?

10) What did you find hard about your pregnancy?

11) Did you look after your baby on your own or did you have support?

12) Were you able to continue with your education?

13) What advice would you give to other young girls?
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aochriss
replied on April 3rd, 2009
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Just some ideas for you:

You could include a question about birth control, as in, were you using any when you got pregnant? Many girls will say that their pregnancy was an accident, but then tell you they were not using any birth control.

You could also ask that regardless of how they got pregnant, why did they then choose to have a baby? No one has to continue a pregnancy, so having a child is still a choice.

You could post this in pregnancy chat.
http://ehealthforum.com/health/forum196.ht ml
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lucasmommy
replied on April 3rd, 2009
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1. I was 18 when i got pregnant
2. Nope i didnt plan on getting pregnant
3. I was really scared and surprised, but happy
4. Well i dont know how it could happen cause i toke my birthcontrol everyday and gor pregnant anyway
5. The first person to know was my mom, she was happy but thought i was to young
6. My mom did, my dad got so mad he didnt talk to me for about 2 month but then he got used to it and was really happy
7. Im really close with my family so i had lots of support and help
8. I dont think i could have done it without my perents so i got the support i wanted
9. No i didnt have any friends they all thought i was pretty stupid and didnt talk to me anymore, but i got lots of friends that where pregnant in a group for teen moms
10. I had a pretty easy prengnancy but really tired and i gained ALOT, the hardest is peoples looks on the streets
11. Well im still with the dad so we did it all by our self
12. I toke a year off to just be a mom but when he was 13 month he came to daycare and i did my school again
13. To all of them who plane to get pregnant at a young age, just think about it sleepless might baby crying all night needs you 24/7 the first year, dirty diapers many times a day and night, missing out of alot. But that said having my son was the best thing in the whole world hes just an amazing little man and i love him to death but it has been hard sometimes

Sarah(new to the forums)
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kyrafaith
replied on April 3rd, 2009
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1. I was 18 when i got pregnant.
2. No, I was told i had a mere 2% chance of being able to conceive
3. I was nervous
4. a lot of things really. My mom and i didnt talk about birth control a lot although i had been on it. She didnt want to talk about sex.
5.My babys father and his brother because I took the test at his house
6. For a while, then they kicked me out, then they decided to support me but its on their terms, any one thing i do wrong my son and i could get kicked out on the street again and that includes not keeping up with their chores including mine and nathans stuff.
7. My boyfriend. He accepted me while i was pregnant and we started dating then. He let me live with him when I got kicked out, he held my hand in labor and he loves my son and treats him as his own.
8. Financial definately and friendship because it was at the end of high school when people go their seperate ways.
9. Not friends. Other girls I knew of but not friends. THe girls on here somewhat became my friends because they knew what its like.
10. Working up until a few days before i had him in a coffee shop 40 hours a week on my feet. icky.
11. support. I have a lot of it. Not from my babys biological father though.
12. Proud to say i have almost a year of college down!and im not slowing down a bit.
13. Its hard and dont strive for it. But if you do end up in this situation strive in spite of it. We are no longer important. It falls on us to raise our child in a manner that they can respect and love themselves and the world around them. It is hard work, but it is amazing and if you are willing to strive to make your child have the most perfect life it can and can get past how hard it is, it will be the most amazing thing you can do in your life.
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