Single Parenting Support Group

I think adoption is a really tough decision, but it is a very loving one, too...I faced that same question during my pregnancy and I was 20....I decided to keep my son, but I also had my mother to help me....obviously, yoiu have only yourself...you could check into open adoption...this is really a question no one can answer, but you...I know first-hand how stressful being a working, single mother can be...you love this child more than anything in this world, but sometimes you are grumpy and sometimes you just want to be alone, but I was taught by my mother that when you bring a child into this world you make the choice to put someone else's happiness and well-being before your own....if you choose to raise your child on your own, you give up an awful lot...and you won't realize it until those things come up....you see your friends or ppl your age going out and dating and having fun and you are being a mom....you have a lot to think about.....is keeping this baby best for you or the baby? You are so young and it's extra tough on someone your age....I have known a few ppl to have babies young and some stepped up and some ended up carting their babies to drunken parties....and both types had a terribly rough time...just think and maybe write out the pros and cons....like I said, it's your decision and it wouldn't hurt to talk to someone who specializes in counseling young expectant mothers...I hope even one lil thing I have said is at least somewhat helpful...and I know it will all work out the way it is supposed to in the end :)

You can do anything you put your heart into. I had my first baby the month after I turned seventeen. People didn't think I'd be able to do it or that we'd suffer for it. I decided that they were wrong. She is almost ten now and is brilliant and loving and I can't imagine life without her. The thing is that you have to do it for the baby not for you. You have to put so much of yourself aside and that baby first. It is hard and you will cry in the bathroom and lose sleep at night but somehow we are capable of that amazing kind of love. If you need to talk find me okay?