Narrative Essay On Having A Baby

I found out I was having a baby, the summer of my senior year in high school. At the time I felt overwhelmed and confused, not really sure what to do. One thing I knew for sure was that I didn’t want to be another statistic. High school teen mom, later drop out. I had planned to attend Langston University with my best friend at the time. I knew that if I decided to keep the baby, my college plan would have to wait a while. I had a conversation with my friend and decided that I was going to keep my baby. I then made a promise to my unborn child, I’d never drop out of high school and will later go to college.

I gave birth to my baby girl 1/11/0. I took off from high school for a couple of months. I returned as soon as the doctor released me …show more content…
So I spoke to an enrollment counselor. I talked it over with her and decided that I do online classes. Now at this time in my life, I’m a single mother. I was working a full time job and trying to manage being a mother as well. I was going through a custody battle with my daughter’s father. I think the main reason I decided to go back to school was still thinking about the promises I made to my daughter. I allowed the enrollment counselor to talk me into taking four classes. So I’m taking four classes, working a fulltime job, taking care of my daughter and going through a major custody battle. I was stressed to the max. Now when I talked to the enrollment counselor, she told me that I have to get online for class one a day per class. That turned out not to be true at all. I was required to be online practically all day. If someone post something, we were required to respond to all post. It was a major part of class. I was at work most of the day and then trying to care for my baby. It was getting out of hand. I was falling behind really bad. I was in class with too many stay at home moms. They were online chatting way too much. I made a decision at that time to drop out altogether. I just wasn’t in a good place at