I was an overly fertile teenage girl to biggest asshole in my book.

I was a mother at 16. My girlfriends used to ask me about parenting and we were always like ?!? How do people fuck this up so bad? There’s so many articles, so many classes, so much available information. We also looked down on teen mothers, we all had unhealthy preconceived notions on what their lives were like…<br><br>Well, I’m an asshole. I was that girl. First time I ever had sex, boom, I’m 16 and pregnant. My boyfriend and I were “careful”… But bare back is just so nice, you know?<br><br>It was a hard road. People were cruel, judgmental. I was a failure in most of their eyes. They didn’t understand how someone could do this. I didn’t understand my situation either. One moment I was focussed on school and being a good kid and then I had an IUD birth control and thought I was protected. Still, I got pregnant. I thought it was bad luck. I thought I’d never see myself in this situation. I was a dumb teenager. I was invincible. Still, I let it happen. I had a baby. I don’t regret it. It was a hard road. I had to fight for everything. But I did fight and I had to think of my child. I put my situation to the side and prioritized my daughter.<br><br>Now, when I see teen parents, I see someone like me. I see someone that made a mistake but I don’t see an asshole. Or someone less of a person of some kind. I see a person fighting the same road I was.<br><br>I’m a nurse now. I work Ob and we see a lot of teen parents. They’re so scared and young and know nothing about the world yet. And they’re about to have a new world in their hands. It’s not always easy, and a lot of us don’t even know how to use a stethoscope still. But we figure it out and we all help each other. I don’t ever want to discourage someone from joining the medical field because they’re young.<br><br>I can’t wait to share my story about how I became a nurse, despite being a teen mom, because I was young and dumb and didn’t know how pregnancies worked. Despite the hardships, despite the stigmas. I did it. And I love my job.