Telling my family..
Hey guys, so I just turned 21, and I'm 12 weeks pregnant with my second child. here's a little back story - I had my frost child at 17, was with her dad for 4 years and it didn't work out. I have been in my current relationship about a year, he is about to be 25, college graduate, very stable and was ready for kids. I never wanted too much of a gap between my children and my daughter is four now so I took out my birth control ( mirena ) after seeing how many people have to try so long to get pregnant after removing that and the next month, I'm pregnant. I've told my mother, but my father and my grandparents are very religious and judgmental. I don't talk to them much and when I do it's at family events, I never even talked about Odane ( my current bf ) and they just met him, yesterday. I never talked about it because they literally tell me they don't take anything seriously unless you're married and they never say it to my face but their also racist ( I'm white and he is very dark, Jamaican). they've told my sister they had issues with my daughter's father because he was half Puerto Rican/half aa. so basically I always just thought it was none of their business and didn't need to need any negativity. so now I have to tell them and I'm terrified, they will freak out saying I'm too young and I'm repeating my " mistakes " all over since I had my daughter too young. but I wanted this, I'm really happy. I was 16 when I found out with my daughter and was terrified and alot of negativity because I was so young. But I wanted this, I felt nothing but happiness and just pure excitement when I found out, until I thought about them. I don't want anyone to make me feel badly about something I'm so excited about. I don't want " Alissa is pregnant again" to be some negative dinner table talk. sorry that was long, I don't have many people to talk to. thanks for reading.
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