I am 17, 18 in August and this is my birth story! Ever since September 8th 2017, when i first found out i was pregnant i was always on this app reading about birth storys, and i couldn't wait to share mine. I was super scared knowing im still in school, pregnant at 17, no mother to go to because she passed 10 years ago (a week before my birthday) So it was hard. i was scared to know what everyone was gonna think, i was scared to tell my dad, my family and my fiance's family. Well after awhile everyone found out, of course for me being so young, still in school, a few people had some shit to say, but after awhile i started not caring. this is my life, im gonna do what i want and be super proud of it. At 7/8 months pregnant in the middle of winter my dad kicked out me and my fiance because we were living with him at the time we had nowhere to go so we were staying in his car then we ended up staying at his grandparents house in a camper all the way up until I was 8 9 months pregnant. at the time we got kicked out he had no job because he literally just lost it 3 days before we had nowhere to go living in the camper not knowing what the hell we're going to do next not knowing how we were going to take care of a baby. now we have our own house he has a 16 $ an hour job, and our son is 12 days old. I don't talk to my dad or none of my family and I'm doing super well for being 17 and on my own with a 12 day old baby. I was in labor for 12 and a half hours and I only pushed a half hour my water broke at midnight on April 28th 2018 and I had my son at 12:29 April 29th 2018. he weighed 6 pounds 7 ounces and 19 inches long I did it without any medication at all completely natural it sucked but it was completely worth it for something I feel like I've been waiting for forever. I pretty much summed this all up just to tell everybody my story that I have been waiting to tell everyone since September. I have had a hard but now being in my own house with a baby

and my fiance everything has gotten so much better so appreciate life and what you got even when things get hard everything gets so much better in time.

Rayden Joe 💙