re: I'm 15 years old and want to have a baby.

Im 15 years old, & expecting my first. its not as easy as it sounds. if i was you, i'd just hold off untill your older. i thought it sounded fun to, until i actually got pregnant, and now have to deal with alot. its alot of work in the process too!!

Have fun with that.

Quoting Country Babe ; * (::" I'm almost 16 years old, in July. & lately i've been wanting a baby. I am sexually active and had ... [snip!] ... both of my new born nephews, One is almost 5 months old and the other is 3 weeks old and it seems really easy to be a parent."

Ok frist off...WOW!!! I'm not even sure where to really start. You are 16... and at this point you have a choice in where your life goes! Take that and run in the complete opposite direction of parenthood. I thought it was easy and the best idea in the world to be a mom at 16 because I HELPED take care of my sister in law with my niece. Luckily I didnt get pregnant at 16 but I did exactly one week after my 17th birthday. I was obviously living at home with my parents and had no job, no education, no experience, no father (unless he later came to his senses). The fact that you think because your dad left you money that you are finacially ready for a baby is crazy... what happens when you have no more of daddy's money? Then what? Because a baby is NOWHERE near cheap!!! And just to bring it to a point...do you really think your dad left you that money for you to have a baby at 16??? Honestly its not going to matter if you were in the room with every single child that was born...that doesn't make you anymore prepared for a baby than the mother herself. And finally on the last note...Parenthood is NOT easy and I'm not sure exactly where you see it is...other than by helping with your nephews and in that case you are HELPING not being his mom. Do yourself a favor...talk to their moms and see what they say about having a baby, no matter your age its not easy! Good Luck!!!

first is you are sexually active and had three pregnancy scares at 15 ... that's NOT a good thing. Maybe its time to get a little more responsible there.

Next you are financial stable...at 15? wow thats odd. I can not think of a single financially stable 15 year old out there...Thats not even old enough to have a regular job. Babies cost a lot of money for like 20 years!

Being a parent is not easy. Being a parent when you are married for years, have a nice house, expensive new cars, an above average household income, can be a stay at home mom, have healthy children etc is not easy....take any of these factors away and it become LESS easy. And like I said before...this is a lifetime commitment. Your child is something you will be responsible for nearly 20 years in raising and will worry about for the rest of your life.

liking and taking care of children is a world of difference from having your own. Its something that does not go away when you are ready to go to a school dance or shopping at the mall or out with friends. Its full of experiences like being up night and day with a child so sick they won't sleep and just when your eyes get the chance to close you get barfed on for the 10th time and your out of clean sheets and clothes to change into and as you try to shower off the child is screaming and crying....or having an event coming up that you totally look forward to and at the last minute your child gets sick or your baby sitter has to cancel and you have to miss it and stay home with nothing to do. Its constant messes and unending poop. Its poop covering a 3 year old who was sure they thought there would be enough time to make it to the bathroom.....while you are shopping...Your car covered in barf that it takes 4 hours of endless work to clean up. Its clogged toilets. Its broken things you really cared about because curious little hands wouldn't leave things alone even though they were told over and over. Parenthood is so much more than cuddles and attention from strangers that want to gaze at a cute child. Its more than fun cute little clothes.

One day you will be able to experience the unimaginable joys of parenthood along with the trials.....but wait till your situation is the best possible to try it!

Please, take the advice from me, im 15 and currently pregnant right now, it was not planned, but i wouldnt trade my baby for the world. i was pretty popular in school, i was a cheerleader, i was taking MMA and doing gymnastics, then i got pregnant. i had to basically give up my entire life, i lost alot of friends, i get judged and critisized every single day. you say your financially ready, but are yyou emotionally ready? do you really think you and your boyfriend will stay together forever? my babys daddy left me, and its been so rough, he's already dating again. im in the same school as him, and all he does is talk bad about me. when you two break up its going to change everything, your whole life. please rethink this.

To all the young pregnant teens or teens wanting to get pregnant.. I'm 15 and had my baby girl the 1st of this month.. NO ONE at a young age is ready for a baby.. NO teen is financially or emotionally ready to take care of a baby.. You need a lot of support from family to be able to even raise it. It's not easy at all to have a baby.. Gotta wake up every time the baby cries.. Some nights you won't get any sleep cuz your baby has a cold and you want to make sure the baby is ok... You get stared at, talked about, laughed at for being a young mom.. I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the world though.. But please please please dont TTC at a young age..

m 15 and pregnant... its not fun. im due in 4 weeks and im scared to no end. dont punish yourself like that.

Babies need stability and being a teenager living with your mother and not married or even a stable relationship is not good. It does seem easier when you are a teenager I used to think how easy it would be for me to be a mother when I was younger and to some extent it is easy for me but I am married have been for almost 8 years we have a home and jobs we both finished school and had some time to be just us before we had our daughter. We had alot of friends we were close too and do not see much now things change in every way once there is a baby in the picture. No making plans for fun times with friends every weekend after school activities are done you would need to be home or at work. You are still considered a child so some of that burden would be put on your mother you would get support from things like WIC but do you want to rely on free help? Also are you prepared for all of the negative remarks about you and the judgement and criticism. My older sister had a baby her senior year in highschool and she was 19. The guy left her alot of her friends dropped her and she was looked at in a completely negative way and still gets some of that and my niece is 12. Trust me not something you truly want or need right now at least wait until after highschool. You will at least have that but marriage/stable partner and jobs and a home are all very important things needed first. Think about your future child don't you want to be able to give them everything? Being so young would be hard to do that.

Quoting Country Babe ; * (::" I'm almost 16 years old, in July. & lately i've been wanting a baby. I am sexually active and had ... [snip!] ... both of my new born nephews, One is almost 5 months old and the other is 3 weeks old and it seems really easy to be a parent."

No. It is not easy. You take care of them and then give them back. You are obviously not ready if you think it will be easy. Not mature enough and how is a fifteen year old ready for a baby. You don't have the money, you don't have the high school degree or the college degree to get a good enough job to support a baby without someone else's help. Your living in a dream world if you think that it is easy. You still have to go to school, finish high school and college, well taking care of a baby who needs your attention 24/7, and getting up every two to three hours in the night to feed and take care of the crying baby and having to still get up in the morning for school. You are not ready at all! Think about school, and your life before trying to conceive another life and bringing into your life before your ready. I wish I would have waited but now I am pregnant at sixteen, and I know I am not ready and I know that I don't have the money to support a baby on my own, and I am def. not mature enough to do it on my own. My babies father is a drug-addict, and a dead beat who wants nothing to do with me or his child. And I don't want a drug addict around my baby. And having a baby, won't make the daddy stay either, and at fifteen your baby daddy more than likely wouldn't stay . Your not ready and no guy your age is ready. Just wait intill after you have gone to high school and college, and wait intill you have the means to support and take care of a baby on your own, to decide to have kids, just wait. Don't even have sex. Pregnancy and children is nothing to joke around about, and if your having sex get on birth control and use a condom. Because that is just irresponsible to not have safe sex. And that also shows that you are not ready nor mature enough to have a baby, if you can not make a smart decision as to have safe sex. Because once you become pregnant and have a child, you are the one to make the big decisions not your mom, not your dad, you. You have to take care of the baby, you have to sign papers, take the baby to doctors appointments, etc. Your not ready.

i'm sorry, but you're not even 16... so how are you financially ready? i'm assuming you have a minimum wage job and still live with your parents.. your parents would be supporting the baby most likely. you should finish school first.

agreed with most people, you should wait. but some people on here, shouldn't be bashing young moms, no, we are not ready. things happen, & it all happens for a reason, we just have to do the BEST we can to give our baby more then what we got when we were young.. anyways, this giirl, SHOULD wait. because babysitting, is NOTHING NEAAAAAAAAAR being a mother.. JUST SAYING THOUGH.

If my sister said this I would be a little disappointed. Your still a kid. I'm 18 and pregnant and trust me, it is no walk in the park. My friend had her baby at 15 and she has to skip her first year of college in order to work to make payments for daycare. It's more work then you believe.

I will never judge anyone for being a teen mom. I'm only 18 & am 3 months pregnant. I have a fiance , a job, my own house, & am a nursing student. You are being naive. I have plently of young family members that I love being around but you only watch them for hours then they're gone. A baby is your responsibility for the rest of your life, you cannot just get up & go somewhere, you cant have the same fun you want to, you can't live a normal teenage life. It''s way more expensive than you thought go look @ all the things you need to buy before the baby gets there, then all the clothes you need to buy their entire life (until they start payingfor their own stuff) diapers are so expensive just go to the store & price things then be aware that babies soil their diapers 7+ times a day. It's an amazing feeling to be a mother but it's not easy even pregnancy is hard. You need to really think about this girl.

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