I hope you're ready for this..bcuz we sure weren't. My beautiful 15 year old niece and her boyfriend have been together for almost 2 years. They argue stupid kid arguments but overall they get along great. After they had been together for awhile and I saw how they were around each other, I knew they were having sex. I asked her if she was on birth control and she said her mom had to take her but she's asked and they use condoms. I told her I didn't approve bcuz she was so young but would rather them be safe bcuz they were gonna do it anyways and I bought her alot more. Alot. Fast forward a little bit and her mom had a serious car accident that we are amazed she lived through, then she relapsed on meth, then she relapsed on the needle and chaos followed her where she went and everyone was busy dealing with her, that nobody really paid much attention to anyone or anything else bcuz she was the immediate threat to herself and those around her. One night I got a chance to hang out with Mya (it'd been about 4 or 5 months or so) and SOMETHING was different, I could not figure out what it was, but SOMETHING in her had changed and I chalked it up to stress and worry about her mom and didn't press the issue. She is a 15 year old girl...they change minute to minute. About another month or so later, I swing by the house to drop some money off for her mom and Mya was standing outside the car talking to me while I was in the car with the window down. Now Mya is not what one would call fat or plus size, but she's always been my chunky monkey and she's always worn bigger clothes bcuz she didn't like clingy clothes. But the way she was standing and acting, I remember doing the exact same thing when I tried to hide being pregnant from my parents at 16 bcuz I was scared of their reaction, and immediately I told her I was running to the store real quick and I'd be right back. She asked why and I told her that I was buying her a pregnancy test. Immediately she gets defensive and denying it and Coby (the bf) let out a frustrated (?) Noise and kicked the trashcan over. Their reaction already told me what I already knew. I go back to my house (she would not come out of her room) and call her mom and tell her I think she's pregnant. She gets angry and tells me she'd know if her daughter was pregnant and I needed to mind my own business. And bcuz this family clucks constantly, she called the other sisters, mom and friends and told them I implied she didn't know her own kid, said her daughter is sleeping around and starting shit about her being pregnant...just annoying drama bullshit. Mya tells them she isn't sexually active so she can't be pregnant and the family accepts this bcuz its the path of least resistance and they didn't want to handle the possibility of it being true and so I distanced myself bcuz I didn't want anymore stress on Mya or her mom, who was still using or myself who was now handling my wheelchair bound husband who was really sick. Jumping the timeline and it's now been a few months since and yesterday Mya got really really sick and was in alot of pain so they take her to the hospital but they can't go in with her bcuz of the Covid-19 rules so we sit and wait for news from the doctor about her appendix, gall bladder.. something bcuz we are worried bcuz she was obviously very sick. After about 2 1/2 hours Mya sends me a photo last night. On the picture is text. The text says: Hazel Faith ******* 6 lbs 2.3 Ozs 18 inches long And my world changed in a heartbeat. I see this beautiful perfect little girl that my little girl made by herself out of just 2 cells. And I remember the exact moment she came into the world 15 years ago. And just like Mya did 15 years before, this baby already had every piece of my heart the moment she took her first breath. For almost 5 months, she carried this secret by herself. She panicked. She didn't tell anyone (except Coby of course), she didn't get prenatal care, she didn't take vitamins...she had never even held a newborn before and now the first one she ever holds at 15 years old is her own. I'm letting her life calm down before I ask her why she didn't tell. I think I already know the answer, but I need her to say it out loud. So our day yesterday began as Mya getting sick and us thinking the worst case scenario would be her needing emergency surgery for removal of her appendix or gall bladder.. and ended with Hazel's arrival into our lives and that's how just one day can change your entire life. Besides the obvious pitfalls and risks of her keeping this secret, we have yet another major issue that wouldn't be an issue at all had she told us from the beginning. You can't prepare for a baby you didn't know was coming and all our other kids are teenagers now and their stuff was either thrown away or donated ages ago so we have absolutely nothing for this baby to come home to. No diapers, no wipes, no crib, no car seat, no blankets, no bottles, no stroller, no clothes. No onesies. Absolutely nothing. And bcuz of Coronavirus, I was furloughed and yeah the stimulus happened but I haven't even gotten my refund yet bcuz it's still processing, let alone my stimulus check so it's all ghost money. And her mom ..well, it's just another excuse or reason to justify staying high. So any help for her would be amazing. They're both doing great. She's young and they're both new at this thing. 2 new lives began yesterday and I can't wait to watch Hazel grow up and change this world and I can't wait to watch my Mya discover the world again through her daughters eyes as a mom. My heart breaks for the future Mya could have had and the experiences she would have had, had this not happened while she was so young, but I know that God meant for them to have each other now for some reason that only He knows..but here we are and tomorrow when they come home, baby makes 3. The money will be put into an account for her to get what she needs for Hazel. Since she is only 15 she can't have her own account and I know that she would never see a dime if her mom made the account for her. So it's going to me with her other aunt and her as the only other people who will have access.

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