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Following 9 teenagers who are about to become parents.
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I agree Charlotte was immature but I also wondered why nobody seemed to be getting her counselling or investigating to see if she had PND. If it was a 30 year old not bonding with her child PND would be shouted as a reason straight away but it does seem to have been overlooked here because she's a teenager.

Yes and I know this might sound harsh but she did seem to perhaps have learning difficulties IYSWIM - screamed proper support. tbh I don't think she is capable of looking after a baby at all.
And yes PND popped into my head too
That lass with twins was amazing - respect

aargh i missed it!! is it repeated anytime does anyone know?? PLEEEEEEEASE???

I missed the end of this as DD threw up I saw up to where they were talking to Tiffany who was at home with her new baby.... What happened in thend (think I missed the last 5-10 mins) can some kind person pls fill me in?

PS - I agree that Charlotte seemed to have learning difficulties - I don't think her parents really knew how to handle her (even before she had the baby).

At the end of the programme, the couple with the two SN children (can't remember the girls name) got married.

Was a good programme - missed first 20 mins or so, but it was good.

Charlotte - well i darent say what i want, but she needs A LOT of help, poor Sophie

Twin Mum - WOW! What a great job she is doing - really pleased to see her coping so well!

SN couple - local to me and MASSIVE respect! What a gorgeous little lad Ivan is.

5 under 5 - well done on making it work, but MAD springs to mind!!!

I think it's really unfair to blame Charlotte for her behaviour with Sophie. Charlotte is a child, not an adult. She clearly has difficulties and was put in care by her mother and stepfather, which is just horrible IMO. Why is she so damaged? And why do we expect children to bring up babies? It's insane. Would any of us expect our child's nursery to be staffed by 13-year-olds? Precisely. I felt terribly, terribly sorry for baby Sophie though. Had to stop watching because it was so distressing. I also felt it would have been better for her to be adopted. I think it might have been a relief to Charlotte too.

The Sophie parts were hard to watch, I just itched to pick her up. Charlotte was very immature for her age considering but then everyone matures at different ages and it is just a pity she had a child who is suffering because of it.

Hats of to the twin mum (Nicola?)and I hope she goes back to her studying and gets off the benefits. Although with £160 per week, we don't have that to live off of! I always think that if people want to have families young then fair enough but as long as they are prepared to go to work to support them. Looking after twins is a full-time job though and she is doing fantastically well, her mum should be proud at how she has coped. And her two little boys were absolutely gorgeous!

Watched parts of it and thought it was a great programme but it did have me in tears on more than once occasion!!

I worried all day that Charlotte will go back to school and get picked on for being mean to her baby on national TV.

Such a sad situation.

One thing the programme showed really well is the impossibility of stereotyping teenage mothers. That fabulous young mother of twins and poor little Charlotte just don't belong in the same category, do they?

That child's in shock, I think. Shock surging into PND. I've been thinking about her too today; what was her background?

I also, I have to say, wondered about the young couple with masses and masses of children, and what exactly had motivated them to start on it all so very young.

i thought the couple who got married at the end were fab. Charlotte needs serious help, but doesn't look like she's had a very happy childhood herself, so what do they expect. It was painful to watch, loved the mum of twins, she rocked

MI she was taken into care because of severe problems with her behaviour.

Sadly I have met a lot of young woemn like her

I don't think she was up to mothering. I know that's judgemental. But she was just so very, very young.

i agree. she seems so much younger than her years. my dh couldn't watch. Thought it was insensitive of mum to buy her baby wipes for her birthday though

FWIW, I thought the same thing. I didn't think the same was true of the other mums.

In fact the mum of the twins was a total corker, and far better at the whole thing than I am.

The reailty is that in young mums, as with all mums, some are just not ready. She really wasn't ready

She was only 13! That's pretty damn young to start with!

I wanted a baby when i was young, realy, really wanted one.
I got pregnant, but had a miscarriage. and then waited til now to have another.

I think I do get judgemental about very young women - girls under 15 or 16 - having babies. It's easy for me to say; I had mine late, with no problems over conception. It's just that having babies shuts so many possibilities out of your life and forces you to be responsible. When you're 14, you should be able to be irresponsible and start finding your own boundaries and limits, not have limits imposed on you.

the thing is i don't think you realise that at the time.
so many people (even grown-ups!) think that they will be able to fit a baby round their lives. it's not until you have it that you realise how much hard-work it'll be.

totaly agree with you.

there will be some girls who are emotionally ready at a young age for motherhood. In my experience of teaching this age of girls, these are few and far between.

This girl was simply much too young.

totaly agree with you.

there will be some girls who are emotionally ready at a young age for motherhood. In my experience of teaching this age of girls, these are few and far between.

This girl was simply much too young.

I think the problem with Charlotte, and girls liek her, is that they don't resposnd to subtle encouragement.....they ignore it. And they don;t respond to nagging either.... they go all arsey and 'am I bovvered'.

They need time to grow up a bit, but the touble is that their baby doesn't have that time to spare. a dreadful situation all round.