Teenagers - what would you do if your MOM became pregnant

[salmoneous]

Just to turn around a popular thread - what would you teenagers do (or the rest of us can think back to what we would have done) if you found out your MOM was pregnant. Happened to my wife while we were dating in college. Her mom calls up, and asks if she remembers that talk they had about the serious consequences of getting pregnant and ways to avoid it? Well, it turns out Mom should have been paying a bit more attention.

I still LMAO thinking about it do this day, but neither mom nor daughter thought it was funny at the time.

 

[crz4mm2]

My mom got pg when I was 16. I was thrilled. I had been the baby for all that time. My DH and I were dating at the time and that baby is like our first child. She is almost 30 now. Then, 18 months later, my mom had my baby brother.
I thought it was great. My older sister didn't think it was though

 

[LisaNJ25]

LOLOL

I was 16 when my mom was pregnant with my youngest sister. 1 year later I told her I was pregnant. . Poor thing had a toddler and a newborn grandchild at the same time.

My oldest child was a turned a teen a month after my yongest was born.

 

[ozarkmom]

I was an only child for 17 years until my little brother came along. I thought it was really cool and so did my friends. When I first married my husband he'd get a kick out of intoducing people to his 4 yr. old brother in law. At that particular time around here we didn't really know alot women having babies in their late 30's early 40's now it's almost commonplace. I have a friend who has 6 children all planned ranging in age 3-19.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

My oldest was not a teen when I had my youngest, but she was 12yo. When I got pregnant with him and told them about the pregnancy she cried. She told us that we didn't have to do everything that the _____ family did (insert name of family who we knew that had 4 kids, also) and then she stormed out of the room. She was pretty mad, but did come around. She'd just learned about the birds and the bees and part of it was knowing that her parents still had sex. She got upset all over again when she found out that it was another brother (she has 3 younger brothers), but was glad when I decided to give up on having another girl.

I am the youngest of 5 children, with a 17 year span between us. My older sisters didn't mind it when our mom had me, but when they had my brothers they went through a period of "I can't beleive my parents are having sex".

 

[Poohnatic]

Can't answer the OP's question, but my oldest sister was 15 when I was born, and 19 when my younger sister was born. Granted, there are five other siblings between her and me! She then had her first at 21. I was an aunt at six, but my sister was at 18 months! Mom loved the built in babysitters, lol!

My DH's sisters were 15 and 12 when he was born, they were excited. He explains it as growing up with three moms.

Suzanne

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

I was 21 and pregnant with my DD. My mom and dad had recently divorced and she was with someone else. She was 39 then and happened to get pregnant about the same time as me! Unfortunately (or not?) she miscarried. It's still weird to think that our children would have been months apart in age, that my brother or sister could be the same age as my own child.

 

[MouseWorshipin]

A friend of mine is pregnant. Her 13yo son was fine with it. Her 12yo daughter is NOT. Screamed and cried, basically had a temper tantrum. "This is not fair! This is not OK! How can you do this? I don't want it!"...blah, blah, blah. I'm sure she'll come around when the little darling shows up, though.

 

[anewvance]

I was 13 when my little sister was born. She's 15 now and the coolest teenager around. I'm so proud of her! She has 5 neices and nephews with another neice on the way (my sister is preggo). I am sure she is the only one in her school with that many. I tell ya what, it makes for good abstinence!! She was only 9 when my oldest was born and she wouldn't watch the birth, in fact the only birth she's seen out of all 5 is my youngest, my son. I'm sure she'll watch the birth of my sisters baby this time around.

My grandparents raised my twin sister and I from age 2 so my mom, my little sisters father and my little sister lived down the street from us so it wasn't like actually having a baby in the house but was still fun.

Edited to add, my mom still feels guilty about what happened with my sister and I so she pretty much let's my little sister get away with murder and she's SOOOOOO spoiled... my mom took her to get a pedicure and manicure yesterday for no reason. It's just the little things, it's actually kinda funny.

 

[nealymouse]

We planned a secret WDW trip for our girls, Well my 15 yr DD knew something was up (all the giggling and stuff behind her back from DH and I) Well she said one day "OK whats up I know you and dad are hiding something from us" Well I told her I was expecting a baby and she about died. Looked at me like I had 3 heads. Could not believe what she was hearing. DH backed me up and hugged me telling her how happy we were, and that she could share her room with the new baby. We had a blast . She was not happy and about in tears when we said " NOT we are going to WDW" Well she did not believe us. It took us showing her the room res before she believed us.

 

[kathy387]

I was 24 when my youngest sister was born As a matter of fact, my Mom, myself and my 2 sisters were all pregnant at the same time It was great!!!

 

[Kimberle]

I was 16 when my youngest sister was born (there are 4 of us). My last 2 years of HS, I had to get her ready and drop her at daycare before school. It was fun having a baby around at that time. Course, everyone "knew" my parents were still having sex.

 

[robsmom]

When i was 16 a friend of mines mom was pregnant. My girlfriend immediately went on diet because she wanted to make sure that no one ever thought it was hers!! Made me laugh. Eventually, she did start eating again and liked the idea.

 

[Davids-Coco]

I have an aunt and a cousin who are the same age. So my grandma and aunt were pregnant together... very father of the bride II. But they weren't very happy with each other at the time. My grandma had another child after that one too.

My dad liked it and is closer to his younger sister who he watched a ton than to any other sibling (8 kids total).

 

[froglady]

My best friend in Jr/Sr High had a niece who was 1 year older than she. I thought it was a little strange back then, but as a 55 year old mother of a 22 and 12 year year old, I feel a bit differently now.

Had I had my first at 21 or younger, she/he would have been 21 or more when I had my second.

 

[Stacerita]

This happened to my SIL's family. My brother is almost 30 and his wife is almost 27. His SIL's are 24yo, 18yo, 13yo, and 10 months, plus he has a BIL thats 5yo. It wouldn't be so wierd if my nephews weren't 10yo, 8yo and 6yo. They think its funny that their uncle and one of their aunts are younger than they are. I kid my brother about it to asking him when he and his BIL are gonna go drinking. He says, what do you mean, we have juice boxes all the time, lol.

 

[RUDisney]

I was also 24 when my Mom had my youngest sister. There are 15 years between the youngest and second youngest.

I thought it was great! Mom cried for the first 3 months, though. She was afraid to tell her mother that she was expecting. I kept reassuring her that it was ok to tell GM because they were married. Mom was 46.

People would always ask my Dad about his 2 families. They'd tell him that they thought it was nice that he and his new wife started their own family. My Dad would respond, "Second wife? I'm still on my first. If you treat them right, they'll never find a reason to leave."

On the night that my sister was born, my DH and I went to the hospital around midnight, as it was turning into Christmas Day. The nurse was taking my sister back to the nursery so I asked if I could hold her first. The nurse told me that only parents and siblings were allowed to hold the baby. She nearly fell over when I told her that I was her sister.

Before we were leaving, DH and I went to the nursery to peak in again at her. Sitting next to my sister's bassinet was another one with DH's last name on it. His first cousin had a baby the same day that my sister was born. We saw it as fate that both of our last names were on bassinets in the same nursery.

Now, my sister's friends ask her to come to me and my other in town sister to ask for advice if they don't think they can talk to their parents about it. Her friends think its cool that she's 15 and has a 39 yo sister. I think that it's cool that there are only 4 years difference between her and my DS, though she didn't meet him until she was 10 since he and his sister were adopted.

 

[Michie]

My boys were teens when we adopted our DD. They did not have a problem with it. They discovered early on that babies are "chick magnets" We were all at the mall one time and they were fighting over who could push the DD in the stroller I then figured out, whoever was pushing the stroller, whenever a woman bent down to talk to the DD, could see down the woman's shirt.