Well being a mom at 17 now 18 has been good and bad. Although many have their opinion on me, my baby, and my family, I don't care for their negative opinions. I am a mother, a wife and a full time student. He obviously wan't planned, but I have never loved or cared about anyone else as much as I love my son. Throughout the process of being pregnant, going to school, working, and having my little Alexander and then returning to school has been a handful of stress. Of course I could have avoided it, but I can't change the past, and to be honest I wouldn't if I could. I love my family, my husband Javier, has always been the best boy I could have ever met. He had always been there for me long before any of these events happened. He has not once given up on me and has always showed me his full support. I have truly had the best support anyone could and that's probably why I am still able to do all of these things like go out every once in a while, go to school and later this fall go to college. Now I do have a pretty great baby and that has worked out for me in the best way. He was almost 2 months premature and was in the hospital for 10 days, but from his first day we knew he was a fighter. He showed improvement everyday, being able to get more and more tubes off of him. When I first saw him, I cried, and if you know me I'm a total cry baby. But at that moment everything seemed to stop, my delivery was fast and I pushed about 4 times and he was born. He had so much hair, but he was on the small side. He weighed 5 pounds 4 ounces and was 19 inches long. He was so beautiful, and although I wasn't able to carry him right away I was so happy the first time I did. Alexander, is really the best baby. He wasn't that crying baby that didn't let you sleep, he was the baby we had to wake up to feed. He slept through the whole night, he only cried when he was hungry, he smiled all the time and was just so happy to be with us. Alexander is definitely my blessing. But that doesn't mean that everything was great and that I suggest you to go out and get pregnant at 17. It's hard work, and people are constantly staring and judging. It's a horrible feeling of being uncomfortable at your own junior prom because everyone is staring straight at your belly. And yes some people might say "She brought it on herself", or even worse things, and I agree. I had a choice, and it wasn't the best choice but I can't change nor do I wish to. It's difficult being a mother, wife and student, but I have been doing okay. Now what I really want you to do is be smart and have fun, because of course there's things I could do but I can't because I'm a mom. So go out and enjoy yourself!