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Q: I Feel So Lost...
asked by: CraziiMama on May 7th, 2007
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This is really long, and I am sorry.. I just feel so alone and wanted to spell out my WHOLE situation.

I'm 6 weeks pregnant and worried because this is my second child. We have a beautiful 16 month old daughter already and currently live in an in-law apartment of my parents house. It's 1 bedroom, so my daughter sleeps in the walk in closet (it works! ). Anyway, I'm really scared right now. My fiance is completely against me having this baby. He didn't work all winter because he left his old job for a new one in November, then they didn't have enough work for him so we've been BROKE. We survived on what I make Nannying (140$ on a good week) and my credit card, but didn't pay rent for the last 6 months (not to mention my Dad paid my car isurance for me). He was supposed to start working FT April 1st, but he's only worked a total of 6 days since then. I keep trying to get him to get a new job but he seems so reluctant! I found out yesterday that his new job told him from the START that they wouldn't have work for him till April and that he just left his old job because "he was sick of working saturdays". I'm furious! We're in the hole about 4 grand with my credit card and I just started financing a car in december, and now I'm pregnant again. I haven't told my parents because I know they are going to freak out on me, ESPECIALLY since i was pregnant last october and had a misscarriage. I've had a tough time getting on birth control because of my migraines and even got an IUD which FELL OUT. (They are EXPENSIVE, but it's basically the only thing my doc will let me use because of my migraines. ) My fiance wants me to get an abortion, and although I am pro-choice, I don't believe that is the choice for me. I've thought of adoption, but although my fiance and I are both adopted by wonderful families, but we both know the pain that comes with and I don't think I can ever hand my child to someone. I'm just scared. He wont even talk to me about it and not many people know. I'm 22 years old, broke, my parents will probably throw me out of the house.. I am so depressed. I want to celebrate this wonderful life growing in me, but it's so hard right now.
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Mabel
replied on May 7th, 2007
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I am really sorry you are so stressed out right now.

1. Stop using credit cards. Period. No good can come of it. Paying interest on money you don't have is not a going to get you anywhere.

2. Get on assistance. Medical assistance. Wic. Food stamps. Something that can help you feed your family. Which is what I'm assuming you are using your credit cards for.

3. Your husband gets a job. A full time job. You two are young. Working on saturdays is hardly a national crisis. So he works on saturday for awhile, the world isn't going to end. What has he been doing all winter waiting around for a better job that wasn't going to get better until spring?

4. Do whatever you can to help your parents - help them clean, help them with yard work, etc. There are a lot of ways to 'pay' rent and helping is going to show them how much you want to be there.

I don't have any advice about your pregnancy. That is entirely your choice, but I will say that Planned parenthood has free birth control for when you are not pregnant in the future. IUDs are not expensive and you can get fitted for nearly nothing there. (if you are in the states!)

Good luck.
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