It’s early morning, around 9 a.m. and I’m lying in a hospital bed as calm and collected as I can be. It could be because of the drugs that have been shot up in my back a few hours back. Six hours ago I was grunting and moaning from the sharp pain I was feeling in my lower back area, a pain I could no longer bear. “Would you like the epidural shot?” questioned one of the nurses. “Yesss,” I replied. Fast forward to about 9:30 I am fully dilated and ready to push. The delivery itself was quick and easy but also exhausting. After all those hours of labor pain I was finally able to hold my beautiful baby boy in my arms. There are a number of happy moments that many people experience in their life whether it’s graduating from high school, getting …show more content…
Not just any mom but a teen mom. During the day I spend my hours working hard in school and at night i’m working hard on my job. Most people are taught to believe that once you have a baby, especially at my age, you’re life is over. But that’s not entirely true. Yes my life has changed with the birth of my son, I’m not able to hang out and party as late as I want but those things doesn’t define me as a person and they don’t define my childhood. Through all of this my number one supporter would have to be my mom. While I’m at school or at work my mom watches him. Education is so important to my mom that she had took a leave of absence from her job so she can help care for my son. My mom knows exactly how it is to be a teen mom since she was one herself. The birth of her first child had led her to drop out of high school due to the lack of childcare. The lack of holding a high school diploma made it hard for her to get a high paying job. “Maybe I should go to night school,” I suggested to my mother one day. “Oh no. I’m not having you taking the easy way out. You’re going to get the proper education. I want to see you on stage with a diploma in your hand,” my mother replied. She went on to talk about the things she missed out on in high school and I realized how important this truly was to
With her graduation day coming soon, her mom made sure to remind her that she will be attending college. “‘you’re going to college’ my mother told. Actually it was not so much a statement as a command- that’s the way Mami often spoke” this was stated on page 101 in paragraph. This stood out to me because it reminded me of how my own mother is, she would always tell me that I would attend college, I had no other option but to attend college if I wanted to be successful in life. I was always questioning her; I would say to myself how is college the only way to success when I would see a lot of the successful never attended school. most of my friends were working and going to school. I wanted to work and provide for myself much like Cecilia
In the story Norma, by Sonia Sanchez, the character Norma excelled at school, even being the smartest person in math (pg. 5 ln. 50-51) and the best linguist in French class (pg. 6 ln. 71-73). Yet Norma made many mistakes that made her much less successful than she probably would have become. The moral of the story is to not do drugs, don’t become a parent while in school, and go to college.
Nine strikingly fast months have slipped away since I learned about the surprise Amber had for me. It was time to meet our baby boy. I’m anxiously waiting in what has been our “luxury suite” in the Labor and Delivery Department of our Hospital. Amber was taken for surgery
It was August 25, 2006 and I just received the news that I was going to have a baby. At that moment so many thoughts ran through my mind. I was extremely nervous and terr...
On my hospital bed, I sit and stretch out my arms to relieve some nervous tension. My room is nothing but dull grey walls and the smell of disinfectant. My ears perk up as I listen to doctors and nurses conversing outside. Their voices grow louder and louder as I hear their feet coming closer to my door. I crane my neck towards sounds, only to spot the brass knob of my door turning. My heart begins to race and my breathing becomes shallower. I quickly pull out a pocketknife from under my pillow and slip it into my pants pocket. Stealthily, I roll out of bed, forgetting about the various tubes attached to my body. I wince in pain and tears well up in my eyes as they get yanked ou...
Growing up I was always told to enjoy being young; now I see why. A plethora of young teens today become pregnant in high school. I just so happen to be one of those girls. I would have to say it was a life changing experience for me. As a result, the parallelism between the aspects of my life as a teenager and as a teen mom are stress, responsibility and my emotions.
Motherhood has taught me many life lessons. Before becoming a mother, I was a self centered child. I had no motivation to succeed. All I was worried about was where the next party was. At that time I had no want to try because I was so scared to fail. I was slowly progressing to go nowhere and do nothing with my life. That has all changed now. I no longer party or use drugs. I work full time, attend college full time and devote my all to my children. Without them I would probably be in a jail cell not where I am today.
It is important to understand that each and every person goes through different situations in their lives; what a person faces makes their perspective differ from others. The challenges that we encounter make us who we are. My greatest challenge in life was having a baby. Having a baby forced me to grow up a little faster than I had planned.
When I found out I was pregnant I could never have imagined how hard my life was going to be as a teen mom. I remember my dad sitting me down and telling me he respected my decision to keep my daughter, but that I had no idea how hard I just made my life, I don’t think that in that moment I really realized what he meant, but I would soon find out. I was just starting my 11th grade year when my daughter was born so I still had two years of school left. I also had to work so I could take care of my daughter, so trying to do both seemed impossible, at one point my school wanted me to go to school during the day and at night so I could graduate. There was no way I could work and go to school during the day and at night. I had to think long and hard about what I needed to do, my daughter and I needed to be able to survive so I definitely needed my job, so I did
Many people have a negative connotation on teen moms. I am here to prove them wrong. The fact the I have a baby does not ruin my life. On the contrary, she has been my greatest motivation and the reason why I strive to a better person.
Good evening parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and friends. I would like to thank you all for coming to this very special day. I know how proud you must be. As we have grown over the years, there are many stages we all have gone through. From learning our shapes and colors, to getting our first kiss in middle school, or how about explaining to our parents why we skipped school because the principal called home. As we remember these days, things that we've done will be with us forever. But this is only the start of our journey. The day has come where we say goodbye to the big yellow buses, assemblies, assigned seating, and attendance policies. Are you really gonna miss it? For some of us maybe not right away. But eventually we will so for us to be here it is not necessarily an achievement, but a privilege. All of us have been in school over half our lives. To graduate is one more step we've taken in our lives.
Graduation is an exciting time in a person’s life, especially a high school graduation. When I think of family and friends gathering together to celebrate a joyous occasion, I feel I accomplished my strongest goal. It never occurred to me that graduation would be the end of my youth and the start of adulthood. Graduating from high school was an influential event that gave me an altered outlook on my existence. Life before graduation, preparing for graduation day, and commencement day overwhelmed me for reality.
Becoming a mother was the most important day, this was the day my identity shined through. I am proud to say I am his mother. Not having that bond with my mother gave me the strength to be stronger. I have this bond with him that can never break I’m the one he can turn to when he needs to talk. He lights up every time he sees me and it melts my heart it lets me know that I am doing my
Many people, as well as myself, believe that a mother’s influence is one of the most important influences that one will ever come in contact with in their lives. A mother’s love, comfort, and support will often help to shape a child and allow them to become the person they need to be later on in life. My mother has had a great influence on my life from day one. I often refer to her as my “rock” because she is definitely a solid foundation in my life. Being that she is a great role model, my mother’s support and presence in my life has allowed me to grow as a person, keep my spirits high through hell and high water, prosper in all that I have done, as well as mold me to be a great person in the future.
Graduation: the last day that I would unwillingly set foot on the fields of Horizon High School. I could feel my heart beating out of my chest, and tried so hard to keep my feet moving one after the other in order to maintain my perfect stature. After the two hour wait of opening speeches, class songs, and the calling off of the five hundred plus names that were in front of me, it was finally my turn. As my row stood up and we walked towards the stage it had set in at last, this is it, I am done. My high school career ended on that night, but it didn’t close the book that is my life, it only started a new chapter, and with it came a whole slue of uncertainties.