HI Tegan,

You're story sounds like mine. I was 19 and at uni studying Primary teaching when I got preg. Didn't mean it, stopped taking the pill after a huge argument, got back together and waited to go back on the pill, and was pregnant straight away. Like you I believe it happened cause it was meant to.

My parents were also great, I expected them to scream and yell, instead they told me they would support me no matter what. I stayed at uni, had the baby in the Sept, had 2 weeks off and went back for a month and then exams, mum looked after Jordan while I did this as I lived at home. After exams I was home until March then went back to uni for 3rd yr. Arron was an apprentice so we couldn't afford to live together, but instead we holed our money and saved a house deposit. In my 4th yr Mum looked after Jordan while I worked during the day and went to Uni 3 nights a week. Arron and I rented for 8 months in 1997 to see if we could live together, and brought our own house at 23 yrs old, by that time we were both qualified in our field of work, I got a full time job when we moved out to rent.

Since then we have had 3 more children (4 intotal) and we both just turned 30. Arron has his own business and we are set up, with a 6 bedroom house we have renovated and I am a SAHM at last. My friends can't believe where we have got to,but I just think we did what anyone would do, we pulled our fingers out to give our child/ren a good life. I never knock young parents because I've been there and done it.

I had my 2nd at 25, my third at 28 and my 4th at 29. I wouldn't change a thing! Except I wish I'd won tattslotto! LOL That would have helped.

You will look back on your life and I'm sure you will feel the same. I remember saying to my mum, "I've stuffed my life!" and she said "NO, you've just made it harder". Don't listen to anyone who tells you you are too young, it's not age but maturity that matters, and it seems to me you are mature enough to raise a child with love and commitment to giving it everything it needs.

Good luck, not that you'll need it.

Best wishes Michelle

Without my Mum I couldn't have finished my schooling as quickly as I did.