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Re: Memphis Teen Moms Update

I saw the news on the today show also. I did not hear about no clinics, but you did clarify that for us. Shows me how much Today did in research .

I am going to say something personal about myself. I was a teenage mother. My baby girl was born when I was 14. The hospital would not let me see her as the assumed, she was going to be given up for adoption. I said NO, bring me my baby girl. An arguement came up and my parents arrived and said I was keeping my baby girl. She has grown up to be a smart, lovely woman, I am glad I kept her. She is very special to me.

I went my freshman year to a pregnant girls school of 200 students. We had a regular ciriculum[sp] from 9-3 M-F. Thank God for that school. I would have lost a year of my education. I had my baby girl near the end of the school year and they gave 6 weeks maternity leave. So I had to go back for a couple of weeks until the school was out for summer. One of the classes was a parenting class and that helped me to better understand what to do with baby girl, because at that age parenting skills did not really come natural for me. I had to go to another high school and work almost full-time after school at Carson, Pirie, Scott a dept store in Chicago. There was no help in dcfs until I turned 18.

I was always going to be a nurse. My and family's plan for me. Things did not turn out that way, as I really had to much on my plate, but now I kick myself for not going straight to college wih my good grades to be a nurse.

I was adopted in the 50's when I was 3 days old. My real mother was put into hiding with my adopted parents Dr.'s nurse. She was also 14 when I was born. Many a woman/child died back in those days due to illegal abortions.

Times have changed and so has society.

Thank You Marilyn for being a positive influence and helping the girls of Memphis.

[Marilyn]

Re: Memphis Teen Moms Update

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tishamae</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I saw the news on the today show also. I did not hear about no clinics, but you did clarify that for us. Shows me how much Today did in research .

I am going to say something personal about myself. I was a teenage mother. My baby girl was born when I was 14. The hospital would not let me see her as the assumed, she was going to be given up for adoption. I said NO, bring me my baby girl. An arguement came up and my parents arrived and said I was keeping my baby girl. She has grown up to be a smart, lovely woman, I am glad I kept her. She is very special to me.

I went my freshman year to a pregnant girls school of 200 students. We had a regular ciriculum[sp] from 9-3 M-F. Thank God for that school. I would have lost a year of my education. I had my baby girl near the end of the school year and they gave 6 weeks maternity leave. So I had to go back for a couple of weeks until the school was out for summer. One of the classes was a parenting class and that helped me to better understand what to do with baby girl, because at that age parenting skills did not really come natural for me. I had to go to another high school and work almost full-time after school at Carson, Pirie, Scott a dept store in Chicago. There was no help in dcfs until I turned 18.

I was always going to be a nurse. My and family's plan for me. Things did not turn out that way, as I really had to much on my plate, but now I kick myself for not going straight to college wih my good grades to be a nurse.

I was adopted in the 50's when I was 3 days old. My real mother was put into hiding with my adopted parents Dr.'s nurse. She was also 14 when I was born. Many a woman/child died back in those days due to illegal abortions.

Times have changed and so has society.

Thank You Marilyn for being a positive influence and helping the girls of Memphis.

</div></div>Like I said up top the experience makes some girls and breaks others. I know another lady on this board who had two very young, stepped to the plate and raised two great adults. She worked a job she hated all her life, but it provided well for her kids and she did not rely on her family to take care of the three of them.

The school you went to sounds a lot like the Pyramid Academy I worked at, same ideas, my girls got 6 weeks off and home schooling while on their maternity leave. Some of them never came back to school, they gave up, some came back and were in a coma, others came back and got about the business of doing better for themselves and baby,

I'm glad you and your daughter made it through the maze.