Being pregnant brought me firsthand into what it feels like to have a child, especially when it happens at a time before you planned. I finally could understand how my cousin must have felt, feeling too young and not ready to be a mother. I was 21 when I became pregnant whereas she was 14, and though that isn’t extremely young, I hadn’t intended to start planning a family until I was almost 30. I still had plenty of bridges to cross with my schooling and career, and just other goals in life that I wanted first. I wanted to travel, and enjoy my twenties, being young. I could picture it all going away with the birth of a child. I wasn’t married, and felt like my life could be ruined forever. I was extremely wrong, but the thoughts were there. I had trouble feeling as excited as my boyfriend, who couldn’t contain his excitement. Whereas he was looking as to what he would gain with a child, I saw what all I was
Being pregnant brought me firsthand into what it feels like to have a child, especially when it happens at a time before you planned. I finally could understand how my cousin must have felt, feeling too young and not ready to be a mother. I was 21 when I became pregnant whereas she was 14, and though that isn’t extremely young, I hadn’t intended to start planning a family until I was almost 30. I still had plenty of bridges to cross with my schooling and career, and just other goals in life that I wanted first. I wanted to travel, and enjoy my twenties, being young. I could picture it all going away with the birth of a child. I wasn’t married, and felt like my life could be ruined forever. I was extremely wrong, but the thoughts were there. I had trouble feeling as excited as my boyfriend, who couldn’t contain his excitement. Whereas he was looking as to what he would gain with a child, I saw what all I was