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| I am a teen single parent and I don’t want you to be
in my shoes because I was only 16 when I got pregnant with my
son. Before I got pregnant I was 115 pounds and when I had
my son I was 225 pounds! |
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| I had morning sickness with my son for 7 months and my face
was in the toilet all the time. I could not smell anything funny
without getting sick. Still, I gained so much weight that I
went from a shoe size of 4 to a 9. At one point I had to wear
slippers because that was all I was able to wear. |
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| The last month of my pregnancy I became toxemic. You can have
very high blood pressure, your body stores a lot of water and
you can pass out and not remember anything that happened. I
went into the hospital on a Wednesday at 6:30 am and after a
long hard labor had my son at 4:05 am the next day. |
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| My son’s father was very happy because he wanted to
have this baby. But now we are no longer together and we
don’t even speak! He does pay child support and is
good to his son but has taken me to court twice to get custody. |
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| All of my money goes to my son, even if it’s a dollar.
It goes to buy diapers, milk, clothes - because kids grow so
fast nothing ever fits him. Babies are always sick and you have
to pay for their medical bills and medicine. |
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| In some ways I worry that it will affect my son because me
and his father are not together. Like when he gets older and
needs a male role model in his life. |
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| I wish I would have picked a different guy to have my son
by, and I wish I would have waited. |
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| I don’t have my freedom anymore because my son is
always right there, running behind me. |
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