Pregnant at 19: My life as a clueless teen mother

Let me open up to you today. I had my first baby a year after completing high school at 19, and that's just how I spent my early 20s being a clueless mother. A student mother, perhaps? Because I had to leave my then one-year-old at home as I joined college.

Much as I don't regret it, being a teen mum who entirely depends on her parents is nothing to write home about! There's nothing cute and sexy about having a baby you can't take care of, literally. I simply wasn't ready to be a mother. Psychologically, mentally, emotionally, physically and, most importantly, financially. Well, that was accidental. Really? Nah! We all know that engaging in unprotected coitus eventually results in having a baby. Gone are the days when people had babies just fwaaa. That was 19 years ago. This is 2022 and we must all decide when we want to have a baby or babies and why. With whom.