Hey hun just checking in on you!!

Sorry your having a hard time with school, maybe something to think about ... why dont you drop some classes? I dont know if they will let you do that? I was supposed to do 11 classes and in the end i only did 5, it was so much easier for me and i could concentrate on the courses that i would need in the future.

Unless you want to do a job later in life that involves history or geography they arent going to be of a huge use to you wheras maths and english are key in any job.

Yeh i have dropped everything in school apart from maths, english, science + i.t but am stil doing GCSEs in all subjects, becausei can jsut revise in my own time for the rest.

mary you can do it if you put your mind to it i no u can, ur so clever + grown up = ] have faith in yourself xx

I read your post about school but I see you worked things out yourself.Seems like the hormones wrote that first post about school?

I don't believe for a second you're a failure.You seem so smart and driven to me that I think you can do anything.

When I got pregnant,I only thought that I won't be able to finish college now,but then I sat down and thought about it hard and figured it out.

I think it's wise that you decided for a GED instead of a diploma.It's basily the same and you can even do some higher education after you settle down a bit.
I know schools today can even offer you to get a GED through online correspondence.

There are a lot of opportunities for you out there,you just need to explore them.And don't give up!
You are so young,you have so much time to fulfill your dreams...Even if it takes you years,you'll get there.
Many,many

Well, I'm back from my getaway 'vacation'. I must admit it was rather fun, I have been doing alot of reading of a book called "The secret life of the unborn child".
It is VERY interesting, it talkes about how a persons personality is shaped before they are even born into this world, about how the unborn child remembers and how things that affect the mother/him in the womb will affect his life forever. I have learned some pretty useful information, like how when a mother smokes cigarettes while she's pregnant her baby is cut off from his oxygen and he briefly feels high; and how he gets upset even when his mother so much as THINKS about having her next cigarette, if he is subjected to it for so long. I also learned how the baby feels what you're feeling, like when you feel fear or feel upset, chemicals release in your brains that spread through your blood stream and into his, which MAKE him upset. It's really interesting stuff!
On a side note, I went to Sharon's baby shower today. Aww, she got so many cute things! And everybody participated in this game where you get a pin and stick it on your shirt, and whoever says Sharon's name or crosses their legs loses their pin to whosoever happens to hear them/witness the event. There was also a game that you could enter about who has the longest stretch mark! If you entered somebody had to measure it, the winner was 6" long, and she won a prize although I'm not too sure what it was. My grandmother won the pin game, and we took home a candle set which might i say is absoloutely BEAUTIFUL!
The hotel we stayed in for my trip was BULLSHIT! They didn't tell my auntie that they weren't finished renovating, the spa was closed, the heating wasn't working properly or some shit, all this stuff just wasn't set up at all. And the cheap a-holes only gave us a 45$ discount in a resort where YOUR meal alone costs about 20 bucks. Cheap shits.
Baby's been kicking alot less lately, but he does seem to be moving about quite often. I find myself worrying if I don't feel him move for a couple hours, he's a very active little boy. Making me very uncomfortable too, might I add! I assume he's large for 27 1/2 weeks, because my uterus is large and he is cramped in there, I swear I feel every movement he makes!

Enough for today, I'm going to eat supper right away.

That books sounds great!! I think im going to try and have a look for it online

hehe who has the largest stretch mark!! i have never heard of that one.

yay team blue

Oh my god how freaky is that i was thinkin about this 'subject' yesterday, i kept sayin to myself, what if bump gets a sense of how i'm feelin..does that affect how hes feelin that day too? ... really wierd info this is. Hmm makes you wonder doesn't it?

sorry just havin a ponder at the subject hmm .. pregnancy amazes me ! xx

Hehe well if anybody would like to have a look out for this book, the author is "Thomas Verny, M.D. with John Kelly" and it's entitled, "The secret life of the unborn child".

bloody hell mary...
the things you've got through, i take my hat off to you.
as other people have said you seem to have a very mature head on your shoulders. with regards to schooling do what you think is right hun its yours and your childs life your bettering gonna be hard as hell but worth it just keep your chin up and keep going for the goals you set for you and your LO.


by the way i will have a look at that book, although its gonna scare me because if its true and how i feel affects how she feels im going to have one angry baby!!!

Wow. Okay so I just started reading your journal for the first time. I want to just tell you 2 things. First, after reading about what Winnipeg is like, I am 100% sure that I'm going to stay on my little tiny island of Newfoundland in the middle of the ocean where nothing ever happens, ever. Second, I am also 100% sure that you are going to do JUST fine in life. You've made it this far and you will make it again. My mom always tells me God doesn't put you into situations you can't get yourself out of. I'm not sure how I feel about that myself, but it is comforting sometimes to think that way.

I understand how difficult it must be trying to get through high school and be pregnant. Let me tell you something though, WHEN you make it through or get your G.E.D....if you continue on, school gets much easier at the post secondary level. Much more interesting, and nobody telling you what to do. And no gym classes! Ew.

Good luck