Q1. What was the attitude in your school e.g. teachers/fellow students when they found out you were pregnant?
my teachers decided to pretty much ignore it, treat me as any other student, no special privilages. the students stare, im not showing very much so it kind of just looks like i had a big lunch, but as more people find out, the more whispers i hear, and the more silent rooms i walk into.

Q2. Have you felt people treated you differently because you are a young mother?
ofcourse, people tell me all the time that i wont be able to do it, that i should give my baby up so it can have a better life.

Q3. Have you ever felt that you were treated badly or pressured by the member of health services? my first appointment, they asked what my plan was, when i told them i intended on keeping my baby, they lectured me about how hard it is, and that may not be a good choice for a mere 16 year old. i soon switched doctors.

Q4. Do you think media's stigmatization on teenage pregnancies have an effect on young mothers? to some affect. the media has for some reason taken an interest in teen pregnancy, but all of our situations are different, even though everyone may think we are all just stupid girls who got ourselves knocked up.

Q5. What is your opinion about the sex education at schools? Good/Bad/Both?
at my high school they do not even have sex ed, the closet thing we have it health, students arnt getting the information that they need, although that ofcourse is not an excuse.

Q6. To what extent do you agree that it is girl's responsibility only to take care of the contraception to avoid pregnancy? i think it is just as much of a responsibility as it is for the guy. if he doesnt carry condoms, you should, alot of guys think its weird for a girl to have condoms, but while they may think your a slut, you are looking out for yourself.

Q1. What was the attitude in your school e.g. teachers/fellow students when they found out you were pregnant ?
In college, the teachers didn't really care nor the students I don't feel like I was treated any differently.

Q2. Have you felt people treated you differently because you are a young mother?
I feel that my family and friends look down upon me for being pregnant at 18. (19 now)

Q3. Have you ever felt that you were treated badly or pressured by the member of health services?
No, I feel like I've been treated great.

Q4. Do you think media's stigmatization on teenage pregnancies have an effect on young mothers?
I don't really watch a lot of tv or anything so it doesn't effect me. But I do feel like their looked down upon regardless.

Q5. What is your opinion about the sex education at schools? Good/Bad/Both??
I don't know, I never had a sex ed class.

Q6. To what extent do you agree that it is girl's responsibility only to take care of the contraception to avoid pregnancy? I do feel like its a great deal of the girls responsibility because some guys won't wear a condom unless you tell them, and girls should be cautious about that because guys don't have to carry a baby for 9 months & give birth. It is both parties but I think the girl has to step up.

Q1. What was the attitude in your school e.g. teachers/fellow students when they found out you were pregnant ? Honestly, my teachers and peers are more interested in the fact that I'm 16 and in college then the fact that I'm 16 and pregnant.

Q2. Have you felt people treated you differently because you are a young mother?
My distant family really doesn't treat me much differently, but my mum and dad do. It's not always in a bad way though, I've been given a lot more respect because they're preparing me for motherhood, but my mom sometimes has fits where she wants me to just be her baby girl and not grow up. (As my pregnancy goes on, I respect it more and more though)
My real friends treat me differently in the sense that they're more aware of what's dangerous to me, what I can't do, ect. So they don't bother inviting me to crazy concerts or wild parties because they don't want me to get hurt. But they even it out by coming over to my place and just hanging out.
I have also found that more young girls want to be my friend BECAUSE I'm pregnant, which is quite annoying.

Q3. Have you ever felt that you were treated badly or pressured by the member of health services?
My GP is the one who told me I was pregnant, and I feel like she kindly pressured me to continue my pregnancy. (Which I was planning on doing regardless)
My OB/GYN office has treated me quite poorly though. My MW is a doll, but the other doctors in the practice and the staff are quite nosy and mean. It's actually caused me to switch offices.

Q4. Do you think media's stigmatization on teenage pregnancies have an effect on young mothers?
I don't think it has an effect on young mothers personally, but it does have an effect on how others treat them.

Q5. What is your opinion about the sex education at schools? Good/Bad/Both??
I believe there needs to be MORE sex education. Real education, not this "age appropriate" crap they're teaching in school now. Fact is, kids are having sex at a younger age now. If they want to act like adults, then they need to be taught like adults.

Q6. To what extent do you agree that it is girl's responsibility only to take care of the contraception to avoid pregnancy? Well, seeing as none of us single handedly got ourselves pregnant, I think there should be an equal responsibility when it comes to birth control. But I do believe girls need to be more adamant about enforcing their men to use them.

Q1. What was the attitude in your school e.g. teachers/fellow students when they found out you were pregnant? My teachers were pretty shocked, I'm the typical "good girl" I've always gotten good grades, never got into trouble and they all knew that I had plans for college and med school after that, and FOB is the same way. So I guess they were just stunned that the two most unlikely teenagers to have a baby are. Kids in school really don't care, I get a few crude remarks but most just tell my congratulations and want to know about names and feel my belly and all that.

Q2. Have you felt people treated you differently because you are a young mother?
Not really. I get the few stares from strangers when I let my bump show in public, but I do look considerably younger than 17 (average age people think I am is around 15)

Q3. Have you ever felt that you were treated badly or pressured by the member of health services? Oh yes. When I first went to get my pregnancy confirmed the nurse at the clinic asked me probably twelve times if I wanted to terminate and after each time I said "no" she would go into how I was ruining my life.

Q4. Do you think media's stigmatization on teenage pregnancies have an effect on young mothers? I don't think that it directly effects teen mothers, but it does effect how others treat us.

Q5. What is your opinion about the sex education at schools? Good/Bad/Both?
Honestly, I think that at my school it is very good. Teachers teach the repercussions of having sex, i.e pregnancy, STD's but also teach how to be safe about having sex. I think too many schools don't want to face the reality that kids are having sex a lot younger than they used and their sexual education curriculum shows that.

Q6. To what extent do you agree that it is girl's responsibility only to take care of the contraception to avoid pregnancy? I think that it is a 50/50 responsibility. As Croc-O-Dile said, we didn't get pregnant all on our own, it takes two to tango and BOTH the girl and the boy should take responsibility in preventing any unwanted pregnancies.

Q1. What was the attitude in your school e.g. teachers/fellow students when they found out you were pregnant? I wasn't in school/college when I became pregnant.

Q2. Have you felt people treated you differently because you are a young mother? Not really, I look older than I am so strangers don't take notice, a few people I distantly know have given me rude looks though.

Q3. Have you ever felt that you were treated badly or pressured by the member of health services? Not at all, I have had brilliant treatment so far.

Q4. Do you think media's stigmatization on teenage pregnancies have an effect on young mothers? Yes, alot of the stories you hear make young mothers out to be claiming off the council, and unfit mothers, when this is simply not the case.

Q5. What is your opinion about the sex education at schools? Good/Bad/Both?
Mine really could of been better.

Q6. To what extent do you agree that it is girl's responsibility only to take care of the contraception to avoid pregnancy? It's 50/50.

Q1. What was the attitude in your school e.g. teachers/fellow students when they found out you were pregnant?
I was told not to come back as I was missing to much school due to sickness.

Q2. Have you felt people treated you differently because you are a young mother?
I dont have a big bump so nobody really notices, but when im buying baby stuff I get given funny looks

Q3. Have you ever felt that you were treated badly or pressured by the member of health services?
Yeahh, when I went for my first scan, the one nurse was so mean to me because I said I refused to have my amnio test done, she started shouting at me, and then when she took my bloods she proper dug it in and ripped it out causing me so have a scar on my arm now.

Q4. Do you think media's stigmatization on teenage pregnancies have an effect on young mothers?
Yeahh, it causes so many negative feelings towards us, because everyone respects us to be irresponsible drunks etc etc

Q5. What is your opinion about the sex education at schools? Good/Bad/Both?
I don't know, I went to a catholic school and its against religion so we never learnt anything.

Q6. To what extent do you agree that it is girl's responsibility only to take care of the contraception to avoid pregnancy?
I say it's 50/50, a guy may the one who wears a condom, but it the girl dont wanna take the pill and still doesnt want to get pregnant, she should make it her responsiblity to get condoms herself, or get the implant, otherwise if she gets pregnant than its just as much her fault as it is the guys tbh.

Q1. What was the attitude in your school e.g. teachers/fellow students when they found out you were pregnant?

I was at uni when i fell preg, the lecturers were all cool with it, i was an adult so nothing to do with them really and u also dont get the same sort of contact with them as you do in school. The other girls thought i was preg but none were brave enought to ask me to my face and just spoke to my flat mates behind my back, they were cool tho, just a bit shocked it think cos i was known as the pisshead party girl.

Q2. Have you felt people treated you differently because you are a young mother?

Yes sometimes, like when i told one of my mates all he had to say was oops! I dont think he would have said that if i was older, I also got people at work etc asking me if it was planned and stuff, i dont think they would have asked this if i was older. I look really young tho.

Q3. Have you ever felt that you were treated badly or pressured by the member of health services?

YES!! Definatly, i have an ongoing hatred with health visitors they always ask me if my mum was helping me, y not ask if my OH was?? and the other she said to me that being a single mum is hard, i'm not but i assumed she thought i was cos of my age. My midwife was brill she didnt have any reaction to my age and my breastfeeding support worker was my absolute saviour i dont know what i would have done without her, she didnt treat me any different but i could just go to her with an stupid question and she would help. She would even listen to me moan about the HV's. sorry i thought i would put good aswell as bad it.

Q4. Do you think media's stigmatization on teenage pregnancies have an effect on young mothers?

I dont think it has effect on young mothers them selves but it changes how people see us and the assumsions that they make.. like, coucil house, living off benefits, no education, single etc etc

Q5. What is your opinion about the sex education at schools? Good/Bad/Both?

Umm if i said too late would that make sense. the content was good but they didnt do it il yr 11 so ur 15/16 so it was too late for me to benefit from it.

Q6. To what extent do you agree that it is girl's responsibility only to take care of the contraception to avoid pregnancy?

Takes 2 to make a baby there for it takes 2 to prevent one as well.

Q1. What was the attitude in your school e.g. teachers/fellow students when they found out you were pregnant? Im at college but the tutors there are dead good about it, no problems at all & there trying to push my work ahead so i can get it all finished and told me if i need to go home anytime i can. The other members of my class were fine, well apart from a couple who were a bit funny but nothing i couldn't just brush off.

Q2. Have you felt people treated you differently because you are a young mother? Not really, Maby it's cause im a bit cluless tbh! and dont notice.

Q3. Have you ever felt that you were treated badly or pressured by the member of health services? No not so far, Apart from the Midwifes have been a bit funny. They dont seem to pay much attention at all and just seem to rush through appointments as if they cant really be bothered but i think there just lazy!

Q4. Do you think media's stigmatization on teenage pregnancies have an effect on young mothers? Yes, i think alot of people's thoughts on pregnant teens & teens with children comes from the media's perception of us which is not always good! I have however watched some tv programs which did show teen mums in a good way

Q5. What is your opinion about the sex education at schools? Good/Bad/Both? Well in my school it certainly was shocking. The teachers were too embarrased to teach about sex education. We had talks which involved a women coming in to talk about periods and the girls and boys would be separted. A bit later we would have actual sex education which only 1 teacher would do meaning instead of getting weekly sesshions it was only possibly for each class to have 3 seshhions of it. Even those were bad! we got sat down in front of a tv to watch a video's on of which was with i beleive tom from Mcfly pretending to have AIDS, as you can imaine this was Hilarious and no-one took it seriously, had it of been a real life story i would have probobleys listened. However we never watched video's about pregnacy.

Q6. To what extent do you agree that it is girl's responsibility only to take care of the contraception to avoid pregnancy? I'd say definately it's up to both. If the girl takes responsibility to take the pill, and the boy takes the responsibility to buy condoms and use them then there shouldnt be a problem. (I know sometimes even with both it can be unreliable) but at least both boy & girl did make an effort.