[TrustingThePain]

I wanted a baby so desperately when I was sixteen, and then, I got one, he was conceived on the pill, we had him when I was seventeen and my husband was sixteen, my entire pregnancy anthony lived in another state! After my son was born we moved in with his father, which was a disaster, ended up using our food stamps to pay for a house full of children who weren't ours to eat, I lived off of popcorn and spaghetti as I breast fed my son! We left there quickly and moved back in with my mother, for the three of us alone it cost 400 dollars to feed a breast feeding teenage mother a teen age boy and a growing baby diapers and wipes alone cost us 150 a month! Plus clothes as our baby rapidly grew, was about 45 a month, then we paid rent and partial utilities, my private school tuition, which I ended up flunking out of and loosing all that money, because I couldn't sleep when my son was colicy for the first 4 months of his life. Then we move out, paying 400 dollars a month for rent 80ish for electricity, 100ish for water, 15 for laundry at the mat. And then we found out I was pregnant with twins. They were born the month before he turned one... That tripled our money out and I was unable to work. We lost everything but the kids moved in with yet another family member who also charged rent and took our WIC for her kids!

We spent about 2000 dollars a month on our babies and we were doing okay, I had a job and so did my husband, who was also going to school. We decided to have another, the day I found out I was pregnant, I was fired and we got the news that Anthony's mother could no longer pay tuition for his college. He dropped out a semester from graduation. Also during this time my pregnant little sister moved in with us, and a few months later, the father.

Backed into a corner financially, we found the safest economic route, and my husband joined the military.

We have since moved out are doing well, adopting his cousins baby, but we have VERY little wiggle room. If I was to lose my disability from my last horrific knee surgery... We would sink again, we would have to take out loans, and probably move to emergency housing!

My point is you can do this if you are pregnant, but if you aren't, run for the nearest birth control and don't go off of it until at the very least you are out of college.

Oh and 10 days, and if you are trying to conceive you should have done research and you would have known that and the fact that you should be on prenatals before you conceive.