I normally wouldn't share some of this, but it breaks my heart to see so many young girl TRYING to have a baby.
When I was just 17 I was in love for the first time, or atleast I thought I was. He was that super hot "bad" boy that every girl falls for and I thought I knew everything.
I got pregnant on the week of my 18th birthday. We didn't use birth control, I guess because I was dumb enough to think it wasn't going to happen to me. He of course, was not the least bit happy about the pregnancy.
Within the first few months of my pregnancy, he started heavily using and selling drugs and I became his physical and emotional punching bag. I went into preterm labor at just 5 months along. I spent 2 months in the hospital, then 2 more in a bed at my parents house.
My son (now 10) was born 6 weeks early, to a mother with no job, no home of her own and no idea how to support or take care of anybody much less a new born. He's never had a real father.
I'm not saying this will happen to all of you, but it WILL happen to some of you. I know being pregnant looks like so much fun. You get tons of attention (most of it bad), babies are soooo cute (sometimes).
The reality of it is you will lose most of your friends and you will lose all of your freedom. Other girls your age will be dating, going to prom, learning to drive, going to parties or shopping, planning a future. And you will be, up all night, probably covered in stretch marks, trying to calm a very fussy baby, trying to figure out how you're going to pay for diapers and very likely wishing you had made a different decision.
Its not "cute" to be 14 and pregnant, its sad. Sad for the mother, and even sadder for the innocent baby.
What happend to me won't change anyone's mind I know but, maybe it will make some of you think. There is pleanty of time when you're grown to have and truely enjoy the lives you can create.