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I can't believe I'm alone

I am 7 months pregnant with my 4th child.My husband had an affair when I was pregnant with my third child, and we worked through it together and decided, although it was painful, to stick together for our kids. He promised he was going to be different forever.

I found out in February (I was 5 months pregnant) that he has cheated again. I'm completely destroyed. Getting out of bed in the morning is hard. I have 3 sons and am now expecting a daughter. My heart aches at going through this alone again.

My baby girl will be here in July, and I am slowly picking up the pieces of my broken life. It seems impossible, and I am so scared.

Melissa Talley

Truly a Singls mom

I was truly a single mom, I had a short lived relationship (6 weeks) with a guy, and i'm being nice by calling him a "guy". Low and behold, a few weeks after I ended it with him, he was VERY violent, I found out I was pregnant.

I told his Uncle because I couldn't get hold of him and his uncle offered me 600 dollars for an abortion. I took the money and bought a crib and baby clothes. It's about the only thing that him or his family has EVER given me. I know it's awful that i lied his uncle to believe that I was going to have an abortion, but I couldn't bring myself to do it and later denied his uncle ever giving me money. The crib was beautiful though, lol.

Anyway, I moved in with my parents for the term of my pregnancy and watched as I got bigger and bigger, the time came to have my little bundle of joy, and it was just my mom and my nanny. It was the long weekend in may at that time and the hospital was empty. It was an excellent delivery.

I went home to my moms afer 3 days and decided that i couldn't live there anymore after only 3 weeks and began looking for my own place. July 1st I moved out into my own place.. It was great, my mom and my nanny babysat for me for free and I worked. I didnt miss much of my daughter growing up being that I swear to God that she waited for me to get home to do her "firsts" of everything. it was GREAT.. I wouldn't change that time in my life for nothing.

I was a single mom till Carol Anne was 8 weeks, i met chrissy's dad and was only with him for 2 years, he was in love with him mom, i'm sure of it! and now.. they are 14 and 16 and i've been married to another man for almost 8 years and with him for 10.

I'm now expecting my 3rd. I had my tubes tied (clamped) to be sure I wouldn't get pregnant while I went back to University to get my nursing. I had them UN-done last November, and it's only taken 4 months to get pregnant, hopefully all will go well and this will be it ....

Good luck to all you single moms out there, I've been there and wouldn't take anything back if I was paid to ....

P.s: I was single for a good 5 years before i met my husband ....

Darlene

my first baby

Well, my name is ariel, and i'm 14 years old. I'm already a single mom and I just had a baby less that 2 weeks ago. My baby daddy is 19 years old. I am in Texas right now, while he's in New Orleans. When I got pregant, I told him face to face that I was. When I told him he was so amazed but during my 6th month of pregnancy, me and my baby were in bad condition. All the stressing from him. Now we're not together and he has a girlfriend.

ariel

Life is Tough

At the age of fourteen i had lost my virginity to a guy i hardly knew. My friend, Garrett, was worried that i was pregnant. He made me go get a pregnancy test done. When the test came back negative we were both relieved.

Not too long after, Garrett and i started dating. Three days later the two of us and our two closest friends, who were also dating, ditched school. We went to his house and got comfy. i was scared that having sex was going to ruin our friendship. i did it anyway because i loved him. it just so happens that it ruined a lot more than our friendship.

Two weeks after we had sex i found out that i was pregnant. i was so scared that i couldn't tell anyone. When i finally did it was Garrett. He acted scared, but cool about it. I was kinda depressed. Garrett made me feel better by running through the gym screaming " i'm gonna be a daddy!" I got used to the idea that i was going to have a baby, until Garrett dumped me. He said that it was because he was moving. I was so depressed. For the first time in my life i was thinking of abortion. i didn't want something that came from him. i told my friends that i would pay them to help me kill the baby. None of them would do it.

It was a few months before i decided that i wanted the baby again. i started dating another one of my friends, Troy. He gave me the emotional support that i needed. He let me know that he would be there for me no matter what. When i went into labor Troy was with me. He called his mother and told her that she needed to take me to the hospital. I was in labor for almost six hours when i had my baby boy, A'Dyn Garrett Johnson.

A few weeks after A'Dyn was born Garrett saw Troy holding him in the store. Garrett started crying and ran up to me. He said that he loved me and wanted me back. i told him that i didn't want him in my life at all. i never wanted to see him again.

Of course i couldn't keep him away from our son. He is able to see him any time he likes, but he is not to take him anywhere. i am now 16 and i am still with Troy. He has helped me and my baby more than he could even imagine.

Jaytease

My New Beginning

I think maybe writing this will make me feel better, however at the moment I am not quite sure of anything.

I am 10 weeks pregnant I discovered I was pregnant 5 weeks ago when I was still with my partner. Things were not great with my partner at the time I found out I was pregnant but I thought maybe things would improve when he found out I was pregnant.

Things only got worse. I have not had an easy time in these 5 weeks. I have been constantly sick and tired which only made matters worse with my partner. Previously he had been verbally abusive towards me which I thought was my fault (I now realise that it's not).

In weeks gone by, he became physically abusive. I don't know why this happened but it happened twice. The second time, when he threw me against the wall, I decided it was time to leave. I couldn't put myself and the baby at risk anymore. I fled to my parents house and they are extremely supportive.

I have had to take out an intervention order on my ex parnter because he was continously threatening and harrassing me. It is very daunting now knowing that I will be a single mother at age 22 however I know that I can do it with the support of my family and friends.

I am very excited about the future and my beautiful baby. I feel blessed that I have the oppurtunity to have a baby when so many people can't and I do believe everything happens for a reason.

Lauren