Thread: How Long?

are you trying to get pregnant?

Just so you know the things I am going to say is only my opinion and advice, and am in no way trying to offend you.

FROM MY EXPERIENCE:
If your boyfriend is "pulling out" doesn't make me so sure you've mutually agreed you are ready to have a child. Especially at the age of 17. If you did want one, you wouldn't use that method...

A little bit about me that may sound something like you, but again I don't know you so...
When I was 17 my boyfriend and I were going on three years, we were high school sweet hearts and were in love! I absolutely loved children and he was getting used to it. I babysat all the time, and we also used what my grandmother would call the "Catholic" birth control. Pulling out

Pulling out does not always work! It may not make you pregnant, but it could. There is always a chance. You could get pregnant on condoms (i.e. if one breaks)

Now here IS MY ADVICE,
as much as I wanted a baby, and really did so bad, I knew in the back of my head I was not ready! Do you realize how much a baby comes with. sure you do. YOU HAVE NOT LIVED YOUR LIFE. When you turn 21 you may not be able to go out with your new friends you met at college because you need 50 bucks for a babysitter and ran out of diapers 2 hours ago. You should also focus your next 4--5 years trying to establish your grounds in the "real world" because sister, you are no where near it. With out a descent college degree in this day an age you wont go very far. And believe me it is very hard to do this with a child. Daycare is very expensive, but a very good career if you want to think about that

Secondly:
If you do want a baby that bad, it's going to be worth the wait. Babies need more than unconditional love and honey, a hollister career will not supply it.

If someone were to give me this advice at your age, I'd say whatever, I do what I WANT...but after the wait...now 22, and still not married to my high school sweet heart (but we are still together) we are starting to get ready to talk about it. Now that we are financially stable (in general) (and not including the 40,000 bucks after college, but well worth it), we have to choose between a $20,000 wedding, or a $20,000 hospital bill. Which will set us back 60 grand. And that is not anything compared to the house we live in to be able to afford everything. Mortgage is a .

Believe me, high school is easy! It is hard to enter the world with a child, when you are still a child yourself.

YOu may be mature for your age, and you could do it, but it's well worth the wait...

AT LEAST UNTIL YOU GET OFF MOM AND DAD'S HEALTH CARE PLAN

if I have offended you with my advice I've accomplished opposite of my intentions...good luck to you