RANT:
I am 18 years old. I met my SO at 16 and he was 10 years older than me. He looked 20 and I was smitten with him from the start. Age did not matter to me. I had experienced a lot within the past year. Did everything I wanted to do. I just wanted someone to get serious with and not worry about being cheated on or any of that kind of stuff. He was the perfect guy for me. What I was always looking for. We been through hell and back together and I love this guy with all my heart. I was happier than I have ever been. At school I was having problems with this guy I had been best friends with for over a year now. He didn't like that I wasn't giving him attention anymore how I used to. He wanted me more than a best friend.. but I didn't want it. Long story short I had to switch all my classes because he was in them all. The bs never stopped. It was getting worse. I would call my bf crying. Beg my mom to come get me. Just leave school. I never dealt with this kind of thing at school before. I was always talking to everyone. Anyways I eventually just stopped going. I quit my job and just ended up moving with him. Had my baby girl at 17. It was not a mistake. We planned to have her. We were living on our own. I was working 2 jobs (4am-12pm). He was working all day. We were stable and had the money to afford a baby. We started talking about it.. and eventually I ended up pregnant. We were very happy. My family was not obviously. His was. I was always getting judged and put down for being pregnant at a young age. Doctors and my ob would make me feel bad about it. Compare me to girls my age saying how I'm too young. I should of waited. And now my ob had me do the iud. I have been wanting it out for months now. Been to him 3 times since I got it! Telling him to take it out. He tells me wait a little longer. See if it works. I have been bleeding for months now. I am tired of it. One minute I'm fine the next I'm in pain. He refused to take it out. He told me he has seen girls my age end up having 3 babies in a row. So what? Maybe they wanted to. Maybe they were ready and mature enough to. Don't compare me to other girls. He tells me I don't need to have another baby right now. That I am still young. Yes I am young but this is the life I have chosen. This is the life I want. I went plenty of times without getting pregnant. I know how to not get pregnant. I got pregnant because I wanted to. And today my coworker told me I am still young and shouldn't want another baby yet. Like are you kidding me? If I want to have a baby I will. Damn people judging young moms. What is the difference if I am 18 or 35??? A mom is a mom. If you are ready to have a baby it doesn't matter your age. That is what pisses me off. I am a better mom than some older women who can't even get their shit together. I am a better mom than my own mom. I am there for my daughter. I do everything I can for her. I spoil my daughter with love and with her little toys. I do everything for her. Everything she can ever need or ask for I do it for her. So tell me why do we get judged for being a young mom?? Why? Because plenty of young teens are having kids and doing a pretty damn good job if ya ask me!
@queen_bee Being a stay-at-home mom isn't an easy meaningless job. it's hard it's exhausting it's monotonous it's lonely. Unfortunately being a stay-at-home mom is an extremely undervalued, unappreciated, misunderstood never ending job. Which unfortunately is judged and ridiculed by society and sometimes even the fathers of those children that we stay home to take care of. Don't ever feel like you're not contributing if you choose to stay home with your children. The fact that you choose to to work is proof of how mature, responsible and strong you are as a woman, mother and wife. You do for you and your family what works for you and be proud.
Yes, that is why I started working. I felt like I was doing nothing and felt terrible for it! He works his ass off and here I was at home just taking care of our baby making no money for us. I just don't talk to people at work unless I really have to @mommiesaremagical14,
@queen_bee, ask to speak to the office manager and explain that you feel your doctor is forcing you to keep the iud in and you want it out... and they will have a conversation with that doctor, or schedule you with another!
Thanks for your input! @dreamermom, you are not too old to have kids in my opinion! As long as you are happy that is what matters! Yes, right! I went three times so far! Tomorrow is going to be the fourth time. He better take it out or I am calling someone else and getting it out.
I was a young mom my first is 13 . I still went to school and college and worked . She is still alive and well. We moved out my mothers home when she was two and I was 20 years old. I didn't get tore down for that . I was praised to being so young and doing well .
So F PEOPLES OPINIONS. It's grown women doing horrible jobs . And shouldn't even have kids . I get the complaints with age but it's not a stereotype that fits all young moms. Keep doing what you doing .
I stopped reading after your doctor told you no he wouldn't take it out. The treatment alone is sue worthy, and then denying you your right . Like serious . Find your self a new doctor and LAWYER . Seriously . I had this same treatment that young when I had my daughter they made me feel horrible without even knowing the tiniest thing about me. I would just ignore it . But it got so bad my mom caved in and finally flipped on the doctor and told them how I was raped and about the investigation. Only then did they shut the hell up and give me proper care. I was still pissed cause they should change how you treat people . I was still a human being , I still deserved some dignity after being striped of it . So please stop letting them degrade you and make you feel less than!
@queen_bee, your welcome hun, I know it's frustrating because I'm sure you want to contribute to the finances to help out your fiance. But you can't isolate yourself by being a SAHM do to other people's ignorance. All those people are an irrelevant temporary existence in your life. Yeah, you want to have a cordial work relationship with them. After all you gotta see them all week but some people aren't worth it. Just go in hold your head up high do your job, provide for your family then go home to them. Don't let them see what they are doing to you (don't let them do it) be strong and confident in who you are and the choices you make. Make them see you don't give a shit and they will back off.
I don't feel like it's anyone's business... if you were living with your parents, and not able to support your little family, I might feel differently... but if you and your boyfriend are happy, can financially support yourselves and are raising healthy babies, then no one should have an opinion except you and him! Here I am 36, pregnant with my second, a stay at home mom, and I too get people who judge me for being 'too old' to be having babies... but you know what, it's my life, it certainly is harder on my body... I wish I could have started younger... but this is just how my life played out... I'm happy, my husband is happy... so I really don't care what anyone else thinks! I'd say find a new doctor, he works for you... if you say take it out, he has no right to leave it in! Plain and simple!
Thank you! @mommiesaremagical14, just gets me so upset how people judge me because of my age when they don't even know me. I guess I will have to deal with it. And when I am 20 and wanting to have another kid I will have to deal with it. I will always have to. Just the way it'll be. That's why I loved being a stay st home mom. I didn't have to talk to anyone besides my fiancé. I was happy then. Didn't have no one judging me. I was content. Now at work people talk bs. Ask question. That's why most of the time I just walk in to clock in and walk back out. Don't get personal with anyone.
I don't judge you at all for your decision. If you are in a stable happy relationship and financially stable and feel ready for a family and it's no one else's business. Maturity doesn't just have to do with age, it also has to do with experience. It can be one, the other or both. I also agree that a young mom can be a more attentive and responsible mother than one in her 30s. In my opinion if I were you I'd seek a new doctor.
Get a new doctor. He disgusts me. He's the type of piece of shit that believes women don't have a right to their body. Go to the emergency room, tell them your dr won't take it out and you're bleeding and in pain (the iud is known for traveling and sticking to someplace it doesn't belong btw, you could be bleeding for a serious reason) and after they take it out, never see him again