I am sixteen years old and I have a daughter that is a year and four months old. Her name is Alyssa, but we call her Saniya. I attend school here at PLC and my daughter attends the daycare center here too. Last week was my first week back in school. I haven’t been to school since November of last year so I’m kind of excited to be back on track and to catch up on my school work.
My first year at Clarke Central high School I became pregnant. It was very stressful having morning sickness and not wanting to get up in the morning. I was always late or tardy to class. The rules at Clarke central was very strict on the number of tardys we got three tardys in one class equal one absent and we could only miss eight days in a semester. I missed a lot of school during the beginning of my pregnancy and didn’t get any credits for my first semester.
After Christmas break we all came back to school and I was five months pregnant. Although I didn’t get any credit for the first semester I knew I had to work extra hard second semester. So that meant that I had to do extra work to get back on track. I made sure I did all my work and turned it all in on time, I also had my teachers and my parents to helping me out. By march of that semester I was seven months pregnant, and almost got all my credits for that semester until I failed one class.
I went to school up until April 4, 2007. My due date was April 9, 2007, but I went into labor April 5, 2007 at 4:30 that morning. I didn’t get to the hospital until 8:30 cause I wanted to wait until my mom got off work so she could take me to the hospital. When I got there my doctor was delivering another baby so while I was waiting for her they put me in this room where I could relax. Before she could get to me my pain got even worse.
By 9:40 the doctor came in to check on me, and I was already 6 centimeters dilated. It seem like the pain was getting worse by the minute, but before the doctor could take my blood and put my IV in good I felt like the baby was ready to come. The doctor checked me again and I was 10 centimeters dilated. I had my baby at 10:04 a.m.
School ended at the end of May so I really didn’t get to go back after I had the baby. A week after school let out I went to mini-mester to try and pass the class I didn’t past that semester. Saniya was almost two mouths old, but her dad kelp her while I went to school. I passed lit/comp 9 in mini-mester so when I started school in august I had all my credits to be a 10th grader.
I went back to school when school started. Saniya was four months old. And by that time that’s when all the stress I was having came back to haunt me. Instead of the morning sickness holding me back I had to stay at home some days because I didn’t have any money to pay for daycare. I missed a lot of days of school for my first semester so even if I did pass all my classes I wasn’t getting any credits so I dropped out. I was planning on going back the next semester, but I got so use to being home taking care of my own baby I decided not to go back.
When school started back this semester I stopped being lazy and came to classic city and fill out the application to attend the school, and the next day I came and took the test. When I first looked at the test I didn’t think I was going to pass it cause I hadn’t seen any school work for eight months, but I did. Since the school has daycare and saniya is one now I can come to school like am suppose to and still graduate on time.