Thread by @StupidRock

#pregnancyhelpline heart-jerker edition
So I've talked about minors calling in the past. These always get me. Well, recently I had a call from a 15 yr old girl, and when she first got on, she was just a sobbing mess. I get her to calm down, and the story comes out.
She just
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took a pregnancy test in her bathroom and it came back positive. She is freaking out. She has told no one-she literally just looked up a number to call after getting the test result. So I have a crying girl in her bathroom. She tells me her mom is a single mom and would want
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so much better for her. She is afraid her mom will be so disappointed her daughter is making the same mistakes she made, and this girl feels like she should have known better, so know her mom is just going to think she is "a fuck-up--pardon my language >sniffle<."
Wow, where
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do I even start with this? I'm just trying to be calm and get her to be calm and think things through.
So I just ask her some questions about school, about her family, stuff like that til she's not all sniffling anymore. She takes 2 pregnancy help center numbers from me.
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I assure her our centers are free and confidential, even for minors. I tell her it may be helpful to have someone to sit down with and to talk to about her options, even come up with a game plan for telling her mom. She doesn't have to face this alone. She seemed to draw
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some strength from having some solid info to pursue.
I let her know that if and when she decides to tell her mom, yes, her mom may be disappointed. But her mom also knows it's possible to be a young mom and succeed, since she had you young and completed HS and college and got
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a job and is able to support you. And given some time, she may soften up to the idea of having a grandchild if you decide to keep your baby. She acted kind of surprised to think of it that way, but I could tell she was going to mull those ideas over a bit.
We talked a little
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more, and she left still feeling anxious (obviously!), but much more calm and told me she would follow up with one of the centers I gave her before telling her mom.
I hope she chooses life, and I hope her mom and her can work through this together.
#prolife
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