Going to be posting this in a few places. It’ll be kind of long but I’d appreciate it if you took the time to read my story.

At the beginning of this year, I was in a really low place. I was struggling with my depression and even found myself feeling suicidal. I did some pretty reckless things and put myself into a lot of difficult situations. Completely gave up on school so I fell behind everyone else in my class. Started skipping. At the time I really only had one thing keeping me going and that was my boyfriend. He was the love and light of my life for 17 long months; we had an extremely passionate but toxic relationship and we honestly should’ve ended it before things got messy. At a certain point in time, he gave up on me. He wasn’t enough anymore and he became unfaithful. I never really was a very religious person though I have always believed in God. In my time of struggle, I looked up to Him and I prayed for a reason to keep going. So when I discovered I was pregnant, my first thought was, “This is it. This is my reason.” I never was someone who really went to church or read the Bible; just wasn’t the way I was raised up. If there is one thing I do know though, it’s that all children are gifts from God. So I hope you can understand why even at such a young age of 15 years old, abortion or adoption aren’t options for me. The father of my child has honestly gone off the deep end and is in no position to help me or my daughter. I’m trying my absolute hardest to make the best out of a difficult situation. In my household, money was already very tight and my expecting certainly isn’t helping. I’d get a job but no one will hire me until I turn 16. This is very frustrating because my birthday is December 1st and my daughter’s due date is December 6th. I won’t be able to work for another 6 weeks after I give birth, and then I’ll have to worry about who’s going to watch her whilst I work and attend high school to at the very least get my diploma. Needless to say, I’m extremely stressed. Today I realized I am 6 months pregnant and I still don’t have a single thing for my baby. I thought long and hard about what I can do to acquire everything I need before it’s too late. I thought about making a GoFundMe but I settled for a simple baby registry at Walmart. I figure people would feel a lot better about giving away money if they knew for sure their money was going exactly to what they were told it would. I tried to put the bare minimum on my registry and did it online at Walmart so that it wouldn’t be too pricey. Even still, every item I picked I was keeping price in mind. If you could spare a little bit of money to help me out, it would be deeply appreciated.

You can find my registry at Walmart.com or on Walmart’s app. If you go to “Find a registry” it will be under Celeste Leigh (myself) or Elizabeth Morris (my mother) in the state of Colorado. Even the smallest contribution really goes a long way, you have no idea.