Everyone kept on telling me that I would end up being a centrelink bum and living in housing commission when I was pregnant the first time at 17. At the time, even though it was devastating to lose the baby, I was glad that I would have a chance to make something of my life before I did have kids.
And then I got pregnant again at 20, when DF and I had only been together for 3 and a half months lol and I get a lot of 'looks' from older mums... the grannies are the nicest, they sit down with me at the bus stop and ask if he's my first, and how motherhood is treating me and wish me luck for the future. A lot of them also talk about their past pregnancy's and grandkids (existing and to-be). It's interesting and I get to know people who live in my local area that I wouldn't have otherwhise talked to.
The up side of everything now though is that DF and I own our own house already and in the past 5 months we've halved our mortgage, we own a good car, we have family nearby if we need help, and DF works his butt off 6 days a week so that I can be a stay at home mum for our beautiful little boy, and we're planning our wedding for January next year.
The people who give those 'looks' should concentrate on their own problems more instead of taking offense at young mums. Most of their parents were around our age when they had their first babies.
Last edited by JennaJayen; February 10th, 2009 at 06:43 AM.
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