It's interesting to read your thoughts and I find it so funny that people should judge all of you on being so young when you show such maturity in how you cope with pregnancy and bringing up your children...

Sharon, it was lovely what that checkout girl said to you, hold onto the positives. I'm 30 and will be just 31 when this baby is born, he is our first but I look very young - I'm a high school teacher and more than once I've been mistaken as a student (in front of the kids, which is great for them taking you seriously, as you can imagine!). I find that a lot of the older teachers treat me with very little respect and assume that I have no life experience or teaching experience, so I can kind of see where you're coming from a bit. LOL not sure if that will make you feel better or worse knowing that you could still get the same reactions in 10 years!!!

Good luck and remember it will never be enough for some people that you have a loving relationship with your child or with your partner, people look at me and my DH and we've been together 10 years this year and they think we got together too young, I'm just happy to have a friend and lover and father of my child all in one, and they can b.tch about it all they like