Unexpected.
It has been a few weeks sense me and Sam had made love and we were closer than ever. Sam had been gone for a month he had left two days after the day we made up. I had caught the stomach flu and had been Throwing up for the last Few weeks. I was currently sitting in my Doctors office waiting for her to arrive. I waited for another Five minutes when she came in she asked me what was wrong and I told her. She went over some personal Question with me, and one I never thought she'd ask.
" Have you had any Sexual intercourse during the last few months" she asked. I blushed and looked down and nodded.
" okay. I'm going to send you down for a ultrasound ok." She said. I looked up worried. I had never been good around big machines.
" I'll be there with you." She said I nodded and we walked down to the ultra sound and cat scan part of the hospital. Once in the ultra sound room she got me to lie down on the table and lift my shirt up just in under my bust. She squirted some really cooled jelly on my stomach. I looked up confused and she just smiled. She put the scanner on my stomach. She moved it around .
" ah there we go" she exclaimed I looked where she was pointing at the screen and saw I red dot there.
" what is that" I asked her sitting up on my elbows. She smiled at me.
" that's your baby." She said. I felt tears come to my eye but I blinked them back. My lips formed an 'o' shaped. I didn't say anything all the while she was explaining things to me. I nodded and thanked her and squished the pamphlets to my chest and drove home. By the time I got home I had tears pouring down over my cheeks. I walked in to Bobby's kitchen and past the boys who had just gotten back and into my room slamming the door shut. I laid down on the bed and open one of the many pamphlets reading its contents.
"the national statistics support this conclusion. Twenty five percent of teen mothers conceive more than one child as teenagers. Sixty percent of woman living on welfare conceived their first child as a teenagers. Most frightening of all eighty-five percent of children living in poverty were born to teen mothers" It said.
"The United States has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and births in the western industrialized world. Teen pregnancy costs the United States at least $7 billion annually. Thirty-four percent of young women become pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 20 - about 820,000 a year. Eight in ten of these teen pregnancies are unintended and 79 percent are to unmarried teens. The teen birth rate has declined slowly but steadily from 1991 to 2002 with an overall decline of 30 percent for those aged 15 to 19. These recent declines reverse the 23-percent rise in the teenage birth rate from 1986 to 1991. The largest decline since 1991 by race was for black women. The birth rate for black teens aged 15 to 19 fell 42 percent between 1991 to 2002. Hispanic teen birth rates declined 20 percent between 1991 and 2002. The rates of both Hispanics and blacks, however, remain higher than for other groups. Hispanic teens now have the highest teenage birth rates. Most teenagers giving birth before 1980 were married whereas most teens giving birth today are younger a teenaged girl is when she has sex for the first time,
the more likely she is to have had unwanted or non-voluntary sex. Close to four in ten girls who had first intercourse at 13 or 14 report it was either non-voluntary or unwanted.
Teenage Pregnancy Consequences Teen mothers are less likely to complete high school (only one-third receive a high school diploma) and only 1.5% have a college degree by age 30. Teen mothers are more likely to end up on welfare (nearly 80 percent of unmarried teen mothers end up on welfare).The children of teenage mothers have lower birth weights, are more likely to perform poorly in school, and are at greater risk of abuse and sons of teen mothers are 13 percent more likely to end up in prison while teen daughters are 22 percent more likely to become teen mothers themselves.
Teen Pregnancy Prevention The primary reason that teenage girls who have never had intercourse give for abstaining from sex is that having sex would be against their religious or moral values. Other reasons cited include desire to avoid pregnancy, fear of contracting a sexually transmitted disease (STD), and not having met the appropriate partner. Three of four girls and over half of boys report that girls who have sex do so because their boyfriends want them who have strong emotional attachments to their parents are much less likely to become sexually active at an early age and less likely to have a teen people say teens should remain abstinent but should have access to contraception. Ninety-four percent of adults in the United States-and 91 percent of teenagers-think it important that school-aged children and teenagers be given a strong message from society that they should abstain from sex until they are out of high school. Seventy-eight percent of adults also think that sexually active teenagers should have access to contraception to prevent teen use among sexually active teens has increased but remains inconsistent. Three-quarters of teens use some method of contraception (usually a condom) the first time they have sex. A sexually active teen who does not use contraception has a 90 percent chance of teen pregnancy within one rate high among many adolescents as trustworthy and preferred information sources on birth control. One in two teens say they "trust" their parents most for reliable and complete information about birth control, only 12 percent say a who have been raised by both parents (biological or adoptive) from birth, have lower probabilities of having sex than youths who grew up in any other family situation. At age 16, 22 percent of girls from intact families and 44 percent of other girls have had sex at least once. Similarly, teens from intact, two-parent families are less likely to give birth in their teens than girls from other family backgrounds.
Teen Pregnancy information obtained from The National Campaign To Prevent Teen Pregnancy"
I sighed after that in to pamphlets I decided to give it up seeing it was 4:30 and I had to make supper. I walked out of my bedroom and down the hall and into the kitchen. I opened the fridge and pulled out Ground beef and cooked it in the frying the meat and then I brought the deep fryer out and dumped a bag of French fries. I felt a presence behind me. I looked over my shoulder and Smiled and Dean. I felt more tears come to my eyes. He walked over to me and opened his arms up. I wrapped my around him as sobs wracked my body.
" hey what's wrong." He asked. I looked down and looked back up not meeting his eyes. I looked around to see if anyone else was around and I leaned up to his ear.
" I'm pregnant " I whispered to him. I looked back at him after he said nothing for a few minutes. All of a sudden I was air born. I was being swung around by dean in circles. He let me down and kissed my cheek. I think that was his way of congratulating me. I put my finger to my lips and shook my head and then pointing to the boys as I set down the food. He nodded. I sat down and dug in.
" so how did you doctors appointment go" Sam asked I froze mid bite.
" fine I just have the flu it should be fine in a few months" I lied. He nodded his head and we all went back to eating.
' this is going to be hard.' I thought.