Personal Narrative: How Teen Pregnancy Changed My Life

I was sitting on the ledge of the tub; it was probably half-past eight in the evening; though the sense of time had lost me completely. My heart like the pounding of a drum and eyes wide with anticipation, palms clammy as goose bumps crawl up my skin. In those three minutes, I had seen my life change a million ways though hoping everything would stay the same. Teen pregnancy may seem to be the end of the world but, it is just the beginning of another more meaningful adventure. All it took was those two miniscule; very faint pink lines to tell me that my life was never to be the same. Many emotions then began to fill my now occupied womb; I was frantic, unconvinced, slightly euphoric but, most of all I was petrified! My mother had given birth to …show more content…
For instance, later in pregnancy when our baby began to kick. Though sometimes uncomfortable, those kicks were a happy reminder that things are changing but it's all going to be okay. We had an excellent support group behind us, our parents and grandparents, uncles and aunts, siblings, and friends all around us. Not to say everyone was on board with our new title of 'mommy and daddy', we did lose some friends, and I had lost some family members as well. "They will never make it!" "They will never amount to anything! What are they thinking?" "That poor child...doomed from the very start." An old wives tale states, if you eat a whole fresh pineapple, the enzymes will jump start contractions. Who knew it would work? There was still two and a half weeks to go before our baby was due and my stomach had looked like the prize-winning watermelon at the fair. Quarter after ten in the morning I was pacing my parents’ kitchen, cursing Jorge for the state of my physical being. I had spent almost eight months hearing about contractions and trying to