_SOWBO Business Magazine 5th Edition

day my 22 year old asked me, mom when you were
One
did you want any children? My reply was HELLLLLL
young
shit I barely wanted you!!! We both cracked up
NO,
because since my daughter and I are just 15 years
laughing
we can joke like girlfriends because we basically
apart,
up together. I was 14 years old when I got pregnant
grew
15 when I gave birth to this beautiful big brown eyed
and
girl who I considered everything from abortion to
baby
Because being 15 in the 10th grade the last thing
adoption.
are thinking about is becoming a MOTHER.
you
out I was pregnant was one thing but telling my mother was another. I could
Finding
fix my lips to tell my mother I was pregnant which meant I had sex which
not
I hooked school to have sex. So telling my mother was a No No. So I did like any
meant
teenager and I hid it from her until I went into labor, no my mother never
other
even took me on doctor's appointment to do a urine test which I kindly
suspected,
up some water from the toilet and closed the lid and handed to the doctor,
scooped
right. Not really but it did buy me some time to get up my nerves to tell her, which
smart
finally did after my water broke on the bottom bunk bead I shared with my sister. The
I
had come, this was it .I’m about to be a mom at 15. It was all so surreal, I pushed 3
time
4 times and boom there she was, oh and by the way labor was not at all like the
or
stories women tell of being in labor 18 and 24 hours, when your young your body
horror
much more flexible, no epidural, all naturalize had toothaches worse than labor.
is
T A M I K A G R I E R
"15 in the 10th grade the last thing you are thinking about is becoming a MOTHER"
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