Living with Teen Pregnancy

I spent the first couple of hours looking at other girls’ stories. I’ve seen how most of them seem to be just like my own. Some girls didn’t know what to do, so I offered my word of advice.

My name is Alicia.

I’m 16 and my son Lyric is almost 2 months old.

I found out I was pregnant 2 months before my 16th birthday.

I got pregnant by a 22 yr old.

It was my first time having sex, my fist time ever thinking that I might want to fall in love with some guy.
I went to the doctors office ( this was before I knew I was pregnant) to get on birth control because I told my mother about me having sex that one time. The nurse pulled me out of the room, I could hear my mother in the room throwing her purse and saying “fu**”. The nurse didn’t have to say anything, she showed me the slip of paper and the sign was circled. I starting crying, I went nuts. How was I suppose to take care of a baby at the age 15!

My mother and the nurse talked to me about abortion. It was out of question. I knew that I made the mistake of having unprotected sex. I knew I had to deal with it. After leaving the doctors office I called my friends, balling my eyes out. They showed up not even 10 mins later. They were my support. I then called the father. He had nothing to say. He was 21 at the time and didn’t think much of it. I guess he was scared because my parents were thinking about putting him in prison. Well they didn’t.

My 16th birthday was the worse. I was kicked out of my house for my own stupidity. A month later I moved back. I lived the rest of my pregnancy at home. I went to school and worked so so so so hard at Mc Donalds.

On thanksgiving morning at 7:36 I trucked in my son. 7lbs 8 ounces, 20 inches long. It was the most pain, i’ve ever been in, ever. Now Lyric’s dad is apart of his life, He’s 22, I’m 16. Were not together. But I don’t care. I just want my son to know his father. I work at McDonalds. I have night classes so that I may become a CNA, and I go to school everyday. I’m a junior and I will finish highschool. I will go to college. I will give my son the best life he could ask for.

Money is always a problem, but my son doesn’t do without. Every girl thinks it’s peachy to have a baby, I may make it sound easy. It’s not. I get no sleep, I don’t have a social life. And I have to constantly make adult decisions. Life may be greener on the other side, but you still have to mow the lawn.