My (44f) daughter (18f) is pregnant and I’m very worried about her. Are there any ways I can deal with this that I haven’t already tried?

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My daughter is eighteen, and will soon be nineteen in a month or so. She has already finished high school, and only been at university for about half of a year. She is intelligent, and I had confidence she would be able to be successful. She does have a boyfriend. I was aware of that, and he seemed like a sensible and nice person. I wasn’t too involved, as I didn’t want her to feel like I was being overbearing. She knew she should come to me if I needed to, but she generally didn’t need to.

She had always had irregular periods. I had taken her to the doctor about it several times, but they weren’t that concerned about it. They ruled out any major medical issues, and we thought it would be fine. But recently she had a sore back and stomach, so went to the doctor. She came home crying, and told me that she was pregnant. I told her we can do testing and see how far along she is and then decide what to do. I thought she was probably only six or seven weeks, and would have the option of abortion. But when she got a scan, and they came to the conclusion she’s fifteen weeks pregnant. Even though you can't tell she's pregnant at all by looking at her.

This means that where we live!, she will have to have the baby. My husband and I are both horrified, and she's in shock. She doesn't want to acknowledge anything to do with it. I don't know what she'll do about university, and her future. While financially it will be fine, I don't know what sort of effects it will have on her. I don't think she's told her boyfriend yet, and I don't know how he'll react to it either. Obviously he has some responsibility for it, but I doubt he'll want to acknowledge that. And I have no doubt his family will not be very pleased too. I've given her some time to process it, but nothing is changing and it's causing tension with my husband and I too. I've tried asking her if she wants to talk about it, what she wants me to do, and she won't talk to me. She's so young and currently is not in an emotional position to raise a child, at all and I'm lost on how to help her and my husband doesn't know either.

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Date: April 13, 2024

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