Teen Pregnancy

Teen pregnancy and parenting while trying to graduate is an extremely difficult task but it is doable. My daughter’s name is Karsin and she is almost two years old. I'm also currently 8 months pregnant with my 2nd baby girl named Kodi. Being a teen mom has been hard but my girls are what has given me the motivation to keep moving forward to graduate and go to college this upcoming fall. I have had to miss school due to Karsin being sick and not being able to be in daycare, doctors’ appointments for myself and Karsin, moving multiple times, being in the hospital due to being sexually harassed, not having transportation, and so much more.

Karsin being sick has caused some turmoil in school. When she is sick she can't be in daycare which makes it to where I need to stay home with my little one and take care of her. She has had anything from colds to upper respiratory infections and worse. Don't get me wrong when she's sick all I want to do is stay home snuggle her, watch movies, eat soup, and sleep all day until she gets better but that's not the reality. I have to catch up on my school work so I can graduate instead of being able to always do those things. Being pregnant while having a toddler has caused me to miss school because of doctors’ appointments and doctors’ orders. When Karsin is sick she needs to go in to get checked out and most of the time get on antibiotics so she can heal and get better. This pregnancy I've had some difficulties with severe exhaustion and other things. There have been such bad concerns to where I've been told that I need to take it easy and rest as much as possible.. Which again means missing school.

My two kids have the same dad but at the very beginning of this pregnancy he left me which caused me to have to move in with his grandma. After about a week there things weren't working out how I thought so I needed to move. A lovely friend of mine let me and Karsin move in with her. After a couple months I found out that I had to be out in March of 2019 because the park rules state that you have to be actual family to be living on the lot with them. I then moved back into my children's fathers’ grandma’s house for about a month and an unfortunate event caused me to have to move again. I was sexually assaulted by Anthony's aunt’s boyfriend Scott Shipley. I was in the hospital and had to have forensic testing done. I couldn't stay there anymore because his aunt was blaming the event on me so I had to move in with my mom in Renton. Living in Renton without my license caused me to have to figure transportation out which took me out of school for about a week.

Life can be very frustrating and you may never understand why certain things happen to you. You won't always deserve what life throws at you but you have to make the choice to keep moving forward despite everything. My girls are my life and without them I don't think that I would even be graduating at all. With what I have explained above I'm sure you can see that I've had quite a few bumps in the roads but despite them I'm still continuing to move forward so I can do what's best for myself and my babies.

-Bryanna Daves