Calling all young mums!!!

[tammybear]

I was just wondering if there were many young mums on here.

Im 19 years old, with dd 17 months

well, busy bee by name and nature hey - I'm 23 and have a dd who is nearly 4. Have been thinking about trying for another - couldn't imagine having 3 - your very brave!!!!

i just get on with it!!!! wouldn't have it any other way!!!! ok by the end of the day i am frazzled sometimes but its worth it when they out their little arms around you and say 'i love you mummy'

I'm 37 but feel about 15, can I come too?

No need to preech here - I am a convert to the children. Would never have imagined myself with a child when I was younger - wanted to do the career thing.

Even though I was young when I fell pregnant (18) I wouldn't change it for the world - I love my baby, she is so cheeky - I call her my monkey.
Arrghhh listen to me getting all musshy.

Shame I have to be at work away from her.

I DRIVE!!!!!!!! I can meet u all!! lol

I'm 23 and married and I've got three under 5 too, actually three under 4. It's tiring lol, but you have no choice but to cope, and the bad times aren't that often.

Don't you get sick of those looks though, grrr, lol.

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oooh i know that feeling myermay. I'm 23 and feel so out of place at all groups everyone else seems to be in thir 30s. There are other young mums around in the area but most of the ones ive met seem to be irresponsible 17 year olds and being married with a mortgage and not dumping my child on my poor mum makes me feel like I'm in a different place to them.

im going to a tumble tots tomorrow, and tbh im terrified as i dont want to be giving the looks

met a lovely 19 year old today with a 6 mont old and we got on rally well only to find out she was visiting her grandmother and lives nowhere near

babysteffee you sound just like me!!! yes it is tiring isnt it? and the looks....?!?!?! GRRR don't get me started on that one!!! I know EXACTLY what you mean!!! Whereabouts are you? Maybe we could meet up?

I was preggas when i was 18 but had dd1 at 19, sadly am now 25 is that too old?? had ds2 at 20.

Hi all. I'm 26(getting older!!!) I am married but hardly ever wear a wedding ring....don't like them much. I've got a 2 year old(almost) and a 6 month old. I do look really young. I still look like a teenager, which will be nice when I'm 50!!! I wanted a family when I was young whilst my body was still in good working order....it's not now!!! Anyone on here from Liverpool??

ttfn x

I must look like a teenager too, I got asked if my parents were in by an NTL salesman yesterday!!

I'm in Derby busybee, where are you?

Bronze, you took the words right out of my mouth !

"oooh i know that feeling myermay. I'm 23 and feel so out of place at all groups everyone else seems to be in thir 30s. There are other young mums around in the area but most of the ones ive met seem to be irresponsible 17 year olds and being married with a mortgage and not dumping my child on my poor mum makes me feel like I'm in a different place to them."

Although I have to say that I've kind of conditioned myself to remember that I'm just as 'worthy' as the 30 something look down your nose mothers. Obv not every 30 something mum is patronising etc, before I get lynched !!!

We're sort of caught in a weird limbo land as youngish (although hardly gymslip material!), mums with all the 'trappings' of a ltr (long term relationship), own home/mortgage etc etc.

has anyone else had someone ask if your're dd's or ds's sister?!
I'm 21 and this has happened to me, i don't even think i look THAT young!
my partner is 33, and although i know some of his friends that have had babies, i'm not that close to them as they're so much older than me.
I only know one person my age with a ds and she lives a long way away and as i no longer work i don't really have the oppurtunity to meet many people. My dd is only 5 weeks and i'm a first timer so haven't got the confidence to go far on my own yet
Sometimes feel very lonley and on my own, even though i live mith my dp who i love dearly!

i know how you feel cat82, i always get funny looks whilst im out, but usually i just smile back at them lol. when dd was only a couple of months, i was very conscious of going out. i would only go out when exp was with me, or if i was meeting him in town. ironicly enough, my confidence only started building when i left exp, i suppose because i had to learn to be more confident as i was on my own. where abouts do you live?

babysteffe im in shropshire but looking to move to leicester hopefully in the near future

I'm in Cambridge.

Yeah, I guess if you're thrown in at the deep end you have to get confidence! You sound like you coped really well, I'd be in bits if left completly on my own with dd for the long term!
where are you in the world?
I should definatly smile at the staring strangers, it shouldn't even matter that much, but something in me immediatly makes me think they're looking down on me, still hormonal I think!

Busybee, where abouts in Shropshire? my ears prick up when I hear that as I used to live in Ludlow and don't ever seem to meet anyone who's ever even heard of it!

oh I feel old now! I was 21 when had my dd and am 26 now, old old old

I love Ludlow btw

ludlows not far from here. im just north of shrewsbury

Ah, I remember Shrewsbury well

Fio2 26 isn't old! my dp is 33 on Friday, he's beginning to feel very old
Ludlow is beautiful, I kinda miss being there, Cambridge is so flat!

hey cat my dh is 34 and he reckons he's ols aswell

im in watford. i just try to ignore the looks cos at the end of the day, im not the only young mum out there, and people shouldnt be so narrow minded. im proud to be a mum, so i can happily smile at them. makes you laugh when they look confused at why you're smiling at them