I would really love some honest answers here, a lot of people claim their pregnancies weren't planned but I doubt the percentage of contraception failures is as high as it seems!

I was not a teenage mother but I wasn't prepared for pregnancy. My fiance and I just got lax with the condom use, knowing full well what the risk was, and our son was the result. We were living in a poky flat and had lots of debt but my hormones had made me so broody and his hormones made him so horny that we just let Nature do her thing! It was a life-changing thing but I have no regrets. I was 24 years old and had been with my fiance for 4 and a half years so we were committed. We got married when I was 16 weeks pregnant and are still happy, living in a house now and still with some debt but we're getting there!

My mother was 13 years old when she began having sex and 16 when she fell pregnant to my father. Just to clarify, my father did not sleep with her until she was 16 She wanted a baby because she had a terrible childhood and wanted someone to love and to be loved by. Her father had left them and her mother was in and out of mental institutions. She was bullied at school and left at age 12. She was bulimic from age 10. She says that getting pregnant saved her life. Having my brother gave her the family she craved and she poured all her love and energy into raising him (she did a fantastic job, he's a fine young man now). She says she'd have probably become a drug addict or an alcoholic if she'd not become a mother.

So, there are my stories; two very different ones.

What's your story? Do you regret your choice? Do you wish you'd waited to have a baby or, like my mother, do you feel having a child was the making of you?

All the gritty details please...