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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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TEEN MOM TWICEHI, MY NAME IS NICOLE I'M NOW 28 YEARS OLD AND THE MOTHER OF 5 WONDERFUL CHILDREN. THE FIRST TIME I GOT PREGNANT I HAD JUST TURNED 17. I HAD GOTTEN PREGNANT BY MY GRADE SCHOOL SWEET HEART. RIGHT BEFORE I GOT PREGNANT I DROPED OUT OF SCHOOL AND WELL THATS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. MY FAMILY WAS VERY SUPPORTIVE EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE DISAPOINTED IN ME. HE AND I STAYED TOGETHER EVEN THOUGH HE DID WHAT HE WANTED AND WAS ALWAYS CHEATING ON ME. ON JAN 3, 2000 I GAVE BIRTH TO MY SON NATHANIEL 7LBS, 3OZ. HE WAS PERFECT ABOUT 2 MONTHS LATER WHEN I TURNED 18 HE AND I GOT MARRIED. IN THE SUMMER OF 2000 WE FOUND OUT WE WERE PREGNANT AGAIN, SHORTLY AFTER THAT WE FOUND AN APARTMENT SINCE WE WERE STILL LIVING AT HOME. WELL ON MAY 7, 2001 SHORTLY AFTER I TURNED 19 I GAVE BIRTH TO A BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL NAMED VICTORIA 7LBS 3 OZ. IT'S BEEN A TOUGH ROAD BUT HE AND I ARE STILL TOGETER WE JUST HAD ARE 11TH ANIVERSEY YESTERDAY. WE ARE DOING ALL RIGHT FOR OURSELFS. I SIT HERE TYPING WHILE LISTINING TO NATHANIEL 10, VICTORIA 8, ALEX 5, HANNAH 3, AND ARIANNA 11 MONTHS PLAYING IN THE BACK ROUND. ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO ADD EVEN THOUGH WE ARE STILL TOGETHER I WISH I WOULD HAVE STAYED IN SCHOOL AND WAITED TO BE A MOM. BUT I LOVE ALL MY KIDS DEARLY, AND AS I ALWAYS SAY "IT IS WHAT IT IS". NICOLE Bad Mistake, Good Consequence!I am 17 and pregnant!.. So me and this guy had a wierd relationship. My junior year, when I was 16, he was at my school every evening to pick up his little brother. He would joke around with me about little things that I didnt even think about and he was 19 at the time, and had just had his first baby with another girl. Before long, he would always be out there at my car waiting on me to get out of class. At the end of the school year, we kept in touch and I started to go everywhere with him and we would always have so much fun, even if we didnt do anything special. My mother did not like him at all!.. I tried to convince her that he was a good guy and he was good to me and making me happy. She never accepted him but didnt stop me from seeing him because she wanted me to be happy. He went back to his baby mama and I was very sad. In October, we started to hang out again, but I never let my mother know. In November, I found out i was pregnant and told my mother on December 6 because the baby daddy had already stopped talking to me as soon as I told him. She was mad that it was his baby, but excited about the baby. Its now March and everyone is excited. He is telling everyone that its not his and all, but thats okay because I would be devastated to have to share my baby boy with him. I love my baby more than anything and cant wait till August to meet him :) Erika My teen storyI im a pregnant and 17. My ex and i met very strange way. I was skipping with a friend of mine and she intruduced me to him. i never thought it would work out but i thought if he's trying this hard might as well nothing to loose. so we started getting closer. i never thought we would last we were perfect i have just got out a serious relashionship and he did too. Well everything became so good between us we lasted a year and nine months we had our ups and downs but i loved him. And our love grew stronger. Well confession when we fisrt started having sex like the teenagers we are we wanted a baby so we tried a couple times but as we grew up together we started relizing it wasnt the best thing. but as months past we noticed i wasnt getting pregnant anyways so we didnt worry about condoms. well i told him i thought i was prego. and he said it was going to be ok. When i for sure knew i was that guy i so called" the love of my life" left me. he blammed me for the whole thing he left me hanging. And its sop shocking how you could have so many memories with somebody and they say will always be there, but its all lies. I's still in so much pain but i have to move forward in life because i have a little one depending on me. And now with the help of my family there helping me have god in my heart so i can be strong. The first two months i cried everyday. Its starting to fade but to be honest im depressed and i' m trying hard to forget about him to have pride in myself. he calls or textes once in a while to check up on me, but it hurts knowing at the end of the day that i dont have a man rubbing my back when it hurts or a man to kiss my belly or anything i'm on my own and now wioth the hepl of GOD and my FAMILY i'm going to do the best i can. I'm happy about my bby. and i'm gunna do my best to give my child everything i can. ANd to be a good mommy. Well i'm four months pregnant. Family still progressing on it but their a big help. I'm a junior in High school and i'm going to graduate :D and i'm going to do all i can for my unborn bby. I wish i would have known better but i 'm growing up lil by lil and i'm becoming stronger and now all i can do is be good mom and learn from my beautiful mistake that became a gift from godStefany Wish I would have waitedI got pregnant when I was seventeen. I had been dating my boyfriend, Taylor, for six months, and he had been pushing me to have sex with him. On the day of our anniversary, I finally said I would. There was nothing magical or amazing about it. It was awkward and quick. I told him that I wanted to wait for a little while before we did it again, and he complied.A month later, I started throwing up all the time and my sense of smell got really sensitive. I knew what it was even before I saw that little plus sign of doom. I come from a strict Mormon family, and when I told my parents I wanted an abortion, they told me no. I had to keep the baby. I live in a state where you need your parents' consent. They wouldn't let me give it up for adoption, either. They told me I had to live for the rest of my life with what I had done. When I told my boyfriend, he accused me of being a slut and sleeping around. He told me that he couldn't even get off when we had sex, so it was impossible that he was the father. I was alone. The future I had dreamed for myself was gone. I had my baby girl in May of 2009, and I love her more than anything. But giving in just that one time ruined my entire life. I have nothing. I wanted to move to California and pursue my music career, but I can't do that anymore because I have a child. I can't do anything anymore because I have a child. I live at home, and more than anything in the world, I wish I could go back and change that one single day. December A wonderful mistakeI was 12 when I had sex for the first time. I was dating this guy named Jason for 5 months his mom hated me because I was his first girlfriend and she thought that I was taking her baby away so one night they got into a fight and he ran away to my house. My parents were okay with him staying with us as long as we promised that we wouldn't do anything and we promised we wouldn't. So that night we went to sleep in the same bed and my parents trusted me but I woke up in the middle of the night and he was just looking at me and we kissed and what happened was in the heat of the moment.That was the only time I ever had sex in my life and everything went wrong I was 3 weeks late when I found out Jason was with me when I took the test and it came out positive I couldn't believe that I was in the 6th grade and pregnant. The next step of the way was telling our parents we told Jason's mom and then my parents they didn't like the idea that we were barely teenagers and we were having a baby together. Jason's mom "suggested" that we get a paternity but we knew that it was Jason's. My parents kicked me out and Jason's mom said that we weren't welcome in her home so we went to Jason's dad. He liked me because I was pretty and sweet and jason's dad was excited that I was pregnant. When we went to school the next week everyone knew I didn't know how but they knew and they called me a slut and other things. Our teachers were so sensitive to me and Jason. We were at school when I went into labor I was walking around our school track and i had a horrible pain and I went to the nurse she called an abulance but I wasn't there in time so I gave birth after 2 hours of labor without an epideral but I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Juliana after Jason's great grand mother. Now Juliana is in 2nd grade and I am a junior in high school. Our school had a daycare in it so I could leave her there while I learned how to do what I needed for life. Since then I have had two more kids another daughter who is in pre-k and a son who is 9 months. Jason and I are still together and we have been married for 1 and a half years. But that's a different story. Thank you for reading and I hoped you learned thatyou should be protected and WAIT, Jason and I were not emotionally ready but we still did it and we got a wonderful gift but don't do it Alena & Jason 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 | ||||||||||||||||
