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Do you think I'm too young to be pregnant?
I'm 17, I have 2 jobs pulling in over £600 a month I live in my own home with my boyfriend who attends university of hull studying sport science his aim is to be a p.e teacher, my job is a cleaner for a bedsit which is 1 hour a day and my other job I care for people 20-40 who struggle to do day2day things alone, my boyfriend is 19 he also works as his own manager for a kids football team, he plays football himself also, I don't drink I don't smoke and neither does my boyfriend, I'm 8 weeks pregnant and people are saying in throwing my life away, but I can't help but disagree because I'm happy to be a mum, is that bad?
3 Answers
- Katherine WLv 75 years ago
LOL. Why don't you print this out and stick it in a drawer, so that someday you can have a laugh over how impossibly naïve you were at this point in your life.
In the meantime, let me ask you this: can you live on just what he makes? If not, then how do you propose working two jobs once you have a child? It's pretty hard to just do the one-hour-a-day when you have to arrange child care, or bring your child along (and most jobs don't want that). Try figuring out how to care for people when you have a screaming baby and you haven't slept four hours together in months.
OK, having read your comment, you're clearly just looking for people to endorse what you want to believe. So why post this? Why do you need affirmation? Just go ahead and do what you want to do. That's the mature thing.
But... if you have any doubts, even a smidge, just put yourself to the test. Set your alarm to wake you up two hours after you go to sleep. Wake up and stay up for half an hour, which is long enough to feed a baby. Then go back to sleep for two hours, wake up and repeat. The next day, go to work as you usually do. Repeat this for a week. Then decide if you want to spend months running on very little sleep.
As for the money, your bf will get taxed once he's no longer a student. I don't know the costs where you live, but the cost in America to raise a child is $100 extra a week. Start setting it aside now, because you're going to need it later.
Oh, and please, marry your boyfriend if you want what is best for your child. There are a TON of studies on this, and kids do better when parents are married. If your boyfriend says anything about marriage other than "Great idea" then really, think about whether he's planning to stick around.
Look, I don't know you, you don't know me, you can hit delete or put a one-star next to this answer. It doesn't matter to me. You're the one who is making choices now that will affect the rest of your life, and the life of every child you have, even if you wait ten years for the next child. Don't believe me? Read the book "Freakonomics." It has a whole chapter on this.
- 5 years ago
its not a bad thing to e excited to be a mother. it just might seem inappropriate to others to have a baby at such a young age. forget the haters as long as your proud that's all that matter just keep the baby safe and healthy!