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Single Moms
It's not easy being a single mom. As a single parent, you have to take on double the parenting duty. And that means having great time management skills and top-notch parenting techniques. If you have tips to share with other single moms or just want to help other single mothers and single parents out there, then tell us your story. |
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Disaster PregnancyHi my name is Kahlia and I am 15 years old. When I was 13 my boyfriend Josh and I decided that we loved each other and wanted to share something special for the first time with each other. About 3 months later, I started feeling sick and strange, at this time my mum was a hard core drug addict and my dad was in prison for theft. I didn’t have much of a family life but when I realised that I was pregnant, I was kind of happy that I had someone who will love me now. I told Josh I was pregnant when I was 2 months, he said "its barley noticeable, but I don’t know what my parents are going to say". after that it was hard to contact him and hard to find him around, 3 months later, I found out that he and his parents had moved to a different state and to make things worse I had been kicked out of home bye my mother, I moved into a single mothers home, there were many other teen moms there with me, some of who were also still pregnant. My dad was release from jail when I was 8months pregnant, he found me in the home, he invited me out to lunch at his new apartment, when he looked down at my belly it was a whole different story, he kicked me to the ground and I had passed out. I woke up a few hours later in the hospital, there were doctors everywhere telling me that I was in labour and I had to start pushing, 11 hours later my beautiful baby girl Katie-lee was born. My dad is now back in prison for child abuse and attempted murder. Now I am back at school I am studying to become a nurse so I can help out girls like myself. Kahlia pregnant youngHi my name is lexi and i got pregnant at 14 and my son isaiah.he is my world and i would not change anything. I was kicked out of my house when my dad found out i was pregnant becuase he did not like black people. so i moved in with my son's father but that did not work, i ended up moving to Floirda with my aunt and uncle. i have lived here for 2 years now and my son is going to be 2 in august. Having a baby young is hard but it is well worth it. i love my son and i will not trade him for anything. dont ever let anyone hold you back go for what you want. i am a straight a stundet and have a job. if i can do it you can too!!!!lexi j Story of my current lifeMy name is Katie, I'm 17 years old, and 7 months pregnant. I found out that I was pregnant around thanksgiving and actually told my mom that I was on thanksgiving day. Yeah happy thanksgiving to her. Huh? Well it took my the whole hour car ride home from my grandma's to build up enough courage to tell her. I went it to it thinking that I wanted an abortion, I told her that I already looked abortion options up bit needed her with me so I could get some kind of abortion pill. I thought I was going to have to have an abortion because o figured that my parents would be very upset with me and on their whole sex talks they always said that I would get an abortion if I was to become pregnant at a young age. Well my mom took the whole situation in a way I never thought she would, she asked me if that was what I really wantto do and I thought about it and it wasn't, I want to raise this baby. So with having a baby in mind I dropped out of highschool and got my GED so that way I could start college a whole year earlier than I would have been able to. As the "baby's daddy's" sake we were not together, and when I found out I didn't tell him right away, I figured he wouldn't care so why bother. I was probably 3 months along when I told him that I was pregnant I figured that he should at least know and if he decided to be around or not that wouldn't matter. Well after I told him we still weren't together but he took it very well he was saying how we had to spend the restbof our lives together and whatnot, then he got scared, he started telling everyone that he told I was pregnant ( I never told anyone besides a few friends bc I didn't feel it was bragging right material) anyways he told everyone that it wasn't his. So we go back and forth like this for awhile, now we are official boyfriend girlfriend, but nothing has changed. The only things he worries about are his friends, going to parties, getting drunk, and fixing his car. I'm in love with a total douche bag and he's never going to change. I was going to wait it out till baby is born because I though that would change him, Atleast that changes most people. But it's just hard knowing that I'm going to have to do everything alone, I mean I do have my parents but this is my baby and I'm going to appreciate all the help they will give me I dont feel that they should have to help me raise my baby. The father should. I just wish that he would grow up. An what's funny is that some of his friends are going to have babies too and they seem like they are grown up but he just wants to party. I'm being forced to grow up and he's out doing whatever he wants and he's the older one of us by 4 years. So for all of you out there goon through something similar, don't get too caught up on the father of your child, I'm completely in love with mine and honestly wish I wasn't. I don't want to get hurt in the long run is why I just need him go and break things off before I get hurt. Well here's to all the expectant moms good luck and best of wishes.-Katie Katie scared and alonemy name is kalen and i was 16 when i first got pregnant by this guy L.A. we were in love we had been dating on and off for a few years and was being sexually active for a while with no protection so one day it was the end of the school year final exams was going on and we decided to skip our exams and go to a friends house right down the road from school and hang out and come back and check in and leave again and not even take our exams so thats what we did...but before we left our friends house to go back to school to check in we had sex in the woods behind her house well a few weeks later we found out i was pregnant i was scared and didnt kno what to do i was only a kid and he didnt care about anything but gettin high and running around with his buddies but he stuck with me for a while i told my big sister and she cried she went and bought me a test because i didnt take one i just knew i was pregnant so i took it and sure enough it was positive so i couldnt tell my mom by my self and L.A. wanted to tell her with me but my sister didnt think that was such a good idea so one night i had my sister come over because she wasnt living with us and we told my mom she was very upset she didnt talk to me for like 2 days and all she did was cry so then me my mom LA my aunt and uncle all had a sit down and talked about what we wwas going to do about this situation we got our selves into well at first we was going to keep the baby but i soon reliazed if i did i would be a single teen mom just like my mom was and all alone he wasnt going to step up and help or anything so me and him came to the decision to go to dallas tx and get an abortion done i was 10 weeks when i had it done he went with me as did my mom aunt and uncle but as soon as we was back he was gone and of course school comes around and i am a slut and did it behind his back and all this other shit it was very hard proably one of the hardest things i have ever had to deal with but i look back now and relalize it was for the best i wouldnt have been able to go through an adoption and i couldnt have kept the baby i would have been wrong to do that because i knew i couldnt have given the baby a better life and give him or her what he or she desreved so its taken me 3 years to get over what i did but i am now 19 i finished high school and got a steady job married and pregnant and very happy about it me and my now husband planned this one and we cant wait until he gets here but i still hurt from what i did especially since i am pregnant now and having this one but i kno what i did was best for me at the time or i wouldnt be anywhere near where i am now i dont regret anything i did but i still hurt and it will haunt me for the rest of my life and never go away i am not proud of it but not really assamed either most ppl are against abortion and i was too until i was put in that situation and when your put in a situation like that u never kno what your gonna do....i am now expecting a little boy JUSTUS LEEGE and i cant wait to meet him i wouldnt trade this baby or my husband for anything in this entire world...Kalen My Baby BoyHi, My name is Celeste I'm currently 17 years old, and while most 17 year old girls are just gaining freedom...i'm losing it. Weird thing is I couldn't be happier about it. I'm happy because I now have a wonderful person in my life, one that i know won't leave me...no not some 18 year old boy who says he'll love me forever, but the little 15 month old boy that i call son. His name is Bently Dace Cooper...he has the last name of his father. Even though me and his father wernt together for my pregnancy and the first 10 moths of Bently's life.His dad Landon Rae Cooper and I are now together.Hopefully we will stay that way...but life's funny like that, you may be sad about it one day then the next relize that your child is the best thing to happen to you and no one in the world can change that.Celeste Page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116 | ||||||||||||||||
