Becoming pregnant at the age of 19 years old officially made me a statistic as being a teen mom. I never imagined in a million years that I would become a mother at such a young age. The feeling I had when I found out I was pregnant was, How am I going to tell my family I'm pregnant? I didn't have to because the effects the pregnancy had on me hormonal, such as sickness, my family detected it right away. The effects it had on me emotionally was how am I going to raise a baby? Finish school? Anything? My family was completely against abortions so that wasn't an option. Adoption well I couldn't imagine carrying a baby for nine months becoming attached to it knowing I wouldn't raise it. So I kept her, She was born on January 26,2008. I was so happy. Once she got here things were so different, late night diaper changing, bottle feedings and cries. Family and friends wanted to come visit during the day so I got a little rest, but my nights was restless nights for the first six months. I became emotionally drained and suffered from postpartum depression. I always had these thoughts in my mind of how was people going to think of me as a young mother having a baby out of wedlock. Me and the father was a couple but we had so many ups and downs that we couldn't be around each other for a long period of time since I had became pregnant and had the baby I notice our relationship worsen as a lot of relationships I've seen on television such as "Teen Moms" . The Journey on my teen pregnany had only began when I stop taking birth control and thought I was unable to produce. Most teen pregnancies are planned but mines was very unexpected.
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