@lexiii.017 your response is such teenage bullshit.
So... you're living independently, and can pay all of your bills?
You have insurance for you and the baby?.
You have enough money stashed away so you can afford to take 6 weeks off?
You have enough money for clothes, diapers, car seats, crib etc etc?
Can you afford day care?
How are you going to feed the baby? Formula is flipping expensive and breastfeeding takes a lot of time and effort, not to mention you will need to spend hours a day on your pump to make sure the baby has enough to eat while you're at work.
Are you ready for sleepless nights followed by a full day of work followed by another sleepless night followed by another day at work etc etc etc?
Also what's your plan for when your child is sick and can't go to daycare and you still need to go to work because you've already used up all your allowed time off?
Are you ok being a single mother? Because even if your boyfriend says he's ready, that doesn't mean that he actually will be once you're pregnant. Saying you're ready to play house and actually supporting a family are 2 completely different things.
Honestly if you "want to be a great mother and live a great life".... then please do yourself and your future baby a favor and wait a few years before you bring another life into this world.
@lexiii.017, you and your boyfriend are completely independent? Own home and cars? You all have insurance? and baby will have full insurance? You will be able to afford child care? Soooo many things to take into consideration.
Wow cannot believe the comments you are getting. It’s 100% yours and your partners decision if you’re ready. These people don’t know you so you don’t have to listen to them. You do what you want to do. If it’s meant to be it will happen. If not then you’re still young and have plenty of time.
I have so many friends 16 17 year old who think they are so sure that them and their partners were just perfect together and most of them are single mothers now & struggling still living with their mother asking friends for money for diapers and milk ! Me & my boyfriend have been together 5 years and we still struggle to be together due to so much stress I had my first baby @ 17 and as soon as I got pregnant which I tthought it would be so good for both us because we both wanted it he left me all alone at 4 months pregnant because then he realized that he was too young for a baby went out and left me depressed all the way till my daughter was born! & I never tthought that he would ever do that to me ! And he did ! It's always good to wait to enjoy your relationship w someone until they are old enough and mature enough to have a child if I could go back in time I wouldn't have had any kids w my kids father until he was the age he is now which it was 3 4 years after because I had a child with a immature boy with a child for 4 years before he finally came to his senses in to becoming a man .
girl... as ready as you think you are, you’re not ready and that’s facts. what’s unfair is you bringing a baby into the world that young, are y’all out of high school? have your own house? insured vehicles? good health insurance plan for the family? since you both work, I assume you know how much childcare is? y’all got a big enough savings to cover the 6 weeks you’ll be out of work due to having the baby? starting a family is a beautiful thing, i believe that, but seriously get a sip of adult hood before you dive into parenthood. it’s no walk in the park, it’s actually running marathon with no water, no stops, no finish line.
I agree with @massmomma16,
Child care is really expensive 2 incomes sometimes isn’t enough. Are you ready for sleepless nights? Not being able to go out and have fun, you’re baby gets sick, hospital visits? Do you have even patience for a newborn?
Aside from that. Life happens.
My husband lost both his legs above the knee in a motorcycle accident 8 months after we were married.
Almost 4 years ago he was diagnosed with 2 blood cancers..
I encourage people to live a little before starting a family.
@brownsugarluv like it's doable and what not but specifically trying to while still in school and what not. I'm assuming she's still in school and not to be that person but that relationship could fail at any point in time. My oldests dad said he'd be there, he's mia now.
@lexiii.017, you and your boyfriend are completely independent? Own home and cars? You all have insurance? and baby will have full insurance? You will be able to afford child care? Soooo many things to take into consideration.
@lexiii.017 your response is such teenage bullshit.
So... you're living independently, and can pay all of your bills?
You have insurance for you and the baby?.
You have enough money stashed away so you can afford to take 6 weeks off?
You have enough money for clothes, diapers, car seats, crib etc etc?
Can you afford day care?
How are you going to feed the baby? Formula is flipping expensive and breastfeeding takes a lot of time and effort, not to mention you will need to spend hours a day on your pump to make sure the baby has enough to eat while you're at work.
Are you ready for sleepless nights followed by a full day of work followed by another sleepless night followed by another day at work etc etc etc?
Also what's your plan for when your child is sick and can't go to daycare and you still need to go to work because you've already used up all your allowed time off?
Are you ok being a single mother? Because even if your boyfriend says he's ready, that doesn't mean that he actually will be once you're pregnant. Saying you're ready to play house and actually supporting a family are 2 completely different things.
Honestly if you "want to be a great mother and live a great life".... then please do yourself and your future baby a favor and wait a few years before you bring another life into this world.