any young mums overhere? i`m a mum of 33 and having 2 daughters of 14 and almost 17 i like to think that i did everything very ok for my age my daughters think so i wasn`t easy but you learn a lot by your self didn`t got any help in my younger years any young mums overhere?? lot`s of love from linda
No, but my mom's friend Rene was 16 when she got married and had her first son, Max. He's in his late 20s now, 27 I think.
My mom (HippyFreeksMomma, on the forums) was 18 when she had me. She's 38 now, I'm almost 20. I think she did very well, considering her age and upbringing. She didn't have a good mother figure around to teach her how to mother, herself. So the fact that she raised myself and my brothers to be very educated, upstanding, independent people says a lot for her. YOU GO MOMMA!
hey, im a young mum, lol, got preg at 19, Little man is 9 months now. Where in the Netherlands are you from? i used to have a friend in Ede.
i live near amsterdam you still visit your friend? did you go thru all the negative things they say about a young mum? i did hello girl,is your mother at home....hmmm...i am the mother!! i raised my 2 daughters by my self without any help i had everyone against me but they turned out very ok,i`m very proud of them and myself ofcourse...hihi
lololol! "Is your mom home?" i got that alot, but it's been awhile (i guess i'm finally showing my battle scars, haha!). I always responded with "no, she doesn't live here, but i am a mom, and a registered voter; how can i help you?" That always embarasses people i'll be 40 (or younger; we homeschool) when my youngest daughter graduates highschool. It'll be fun, because i can finally party then, but i won't be so old that i have to come home early so i can take my medicine and go to bed
hahahaha,i know what you mean that`s a good one!! now that my daughers are a little bit more growen-up i can do a lot of things by my self,which is very nice i can tell you that i had my first daughter when i was a teenager myself and you cannot do lot of things but i does`nt feel like i missed out a lot i was there for them and still am now we do other mum-daughter stuff and we can talk also very good with eachother (maybe my englisch not that great ,i hope you know what i meen,hahaha )
i know what you mean; you can relate to your girls (it wasn't so long ago that you went through the same things, etc). Your English is alot better than any other language i could try to type! i took some Spanish classes in highschool, but i don't remember enough for a conversation (they teach second languages way too late in the US, but i'm getting off-topic).
I wasn't a teenage mom, but my mom had me when she was barely 18. I just had to say that it is kind of fun to party with your mom when you're grown and she's still young. I'm 32 now and people have always thought that my mom and I were sisters. She was still getting carded at clubs well into her 40's. A couple of years ago she was standing in line at a bakery with my daughters. Some other women around her age were in line with their young children. One of the kids was behaving badly and my mom said to one of the other ladies, "Well, at least we get to take them home to their moms when they act like this." The other ladies said something like, "What do you mean?" My mom had to explain that those were her grandchildren. She told me that when she saw those women her age with little kids she was glad that she had children when she was young and had lots of energy. So...I guess it does have its advantages.
lmao, you know, you just made me think: i'd much rather be mistaken for my kids' big sister than their grandmother! That would hurt, lol, especially if you really weren't old enough to be a grandma!
weird how time changes stuff....years ago women were expected to be married and producing babies at 18....now lasses wait till older as a rule A friend of mine decided to start her family when young, had her first at 17 and her third at 23........twelve years later they all seem to be fine and dandy
No kidding, huh? And what is that reporter's name who just had triplets or twins or something and she's in her fifties or so? Is it Joan Lunden that I'm thinking of? WTF? I'm sorry, but that just seems like it would suck for everyone involved.
i dont see him anymore sadly, we lost touch when i got pregnant. I love amsterdam though, its a beautiful city, my mum and dad had their honeymoon there. i got quite a bit of trouble at first, mainly from my family, they got over it though. My mum didnt feel old enough to be a grandma, lol, she was 40 when i fell pregnant, funnily enough i was the same age she was when she fell for me almost to the week.
I'm 33 too. I have a son 17 and daughter 13. I think I did okay. My son has severe asthma and diabetes. My daughter so far perfectly healthy. I raised them on my own. Both of their fathers left me when pregnant. I've had a really hard 17 years or so. If I had to do it again I would have just left home and school instead of getting pregnant so I kind of had a reason to do so. Bad, bad idea. I wish I had gotten to live my life the way I wanted and then had babies. I always wanted to live self sufficently away from society, I wanted this since I was about 12. Because I was young and listened to what I was told I bottlefed my son. He got sick and it's my belief that most of his illnesses stem from this. Because he was always so sick any chance I could have had to strike out on my own was squashed. I do love them though. I would have rather had them in my twenties. I think women in their thirties must but so exhausted at the task. If it happens now it happens but shit I get tired just thinking about it.
@kardea: i know what you are talking about my youngest daughter became very sick when she was ten days old they found out she had a serieus blood-disorder i almost lost her after that we had to go to the hospital every week they could`t find the cause of this she had to take a lot of medicyn and nothing helped no she is 14 and doing verey well she not that sick anymore and doing great at school. all those years were very hard but now everything is going great for us we do a lot of things together,next week we`re going to a reggaefestival and they love it offcourse i missed out on a lot(so people tell me)but i don`t feel it like that i would`t do it a second time this way but i`m glad everything worked out ok now i do lot of things for my self and i love that too
I'll be 41 when my son graduates hs. I think we both are going traveling. Plan a couple path crossings (we want to be mostly in different places) to check in, but it's a block of time on the road and backpacker trails for both of us! I looked all of 15 when I had him (I was 23) and was treated like I couldn't possibly know what was good for him by a woman giving pseudo-lactation consulting (she was a regular shift nurse, not an LC) who referred to breasts as "boobies." Oh, yes, my milk was poisonous because I am vegetarian. Hello: look at this fat kid: I was veg through that. Cloth diapers would be "too hard" (yeahhhhhh and traipsing off to the two-miles-away Target would be easy?) and were "bad " for his skin. Great. toss those polyester scrubs and wear the paper gowns at work. I am physically small, meaning by fifth grade, I fit in the seats in his classroom, easily. People are floored when I talk about my son; they expect a toddler and this taller than me teen comes out and speaks in complete sentances. Luckily, my phone voice is "older" (deeper) but door encounters were strange until the past couple of years. Colorado has aged me. wrinkles, silver hair strands AND acne. whoo-hoo.
Sunshine, my oldest, graduated when I was 42. People would often think Sage (who is only 5 and 13 years younger than the oldest) is my grandchild, but only when Sunshine is with me,as they think she is the mother. (When I am alone with Sage, I am not mistaken for Gramma, I look a bit younger than I am.) People can't get over your having children over a period of decades. An other problem we face, personally. People thinking the older kids have a different last name. Bear and I have been together almost 27 years. ALL our kids have the same daddy, the 19 year old, the 17 year old, the 14 year old and the 5 year old. All the same last name and all the same daddy. People can't wrap thier heads around that sometimes. (Nothing wrong with having babies from different daddies, just that I didn't and everyone assumes I did.)
