I can still remember the day I found my 15 year old sister chucking her guts up down the family's bathroom toilet. I can still remember the day i found a condom packet in her jean pocket. I can still remember the day she peered over my new born baby as a small 11 year old. I can still remember the day after I had Neva how she said to me she would never have kids. Especially as Neva 'screamed incredible amounts'. Yet here she was telling me she was pregnant. My baby 15 year old sister who still had four teddy bears on her bed and found more enjoyment out of a glass of cherry aid than a glass of red wine. She told me and I immediately wanted to slap her. Only 4 years ago I was in the same situation just a wee bit older. I knew exactly how she was feeling. Alone, isolated and scared. Before I found that condom I never even knew she had kissed a guy yet alone done the full malarkey. It was scary to say the least. I was the one suppose to be in love with my boyfriend and starting a family, still young myself! I wanted to kill the bastard who had done this to my sister. Seeing her sat there with tears flowing down her face and sick in her hair, She's still only a baby herself.

Who wants stretch marks and droopy boobs before they're even 20?

I hated it when somebody said to me 'What a shame' How very rude of them to judge and make assumptions when they clearly have no idea. Teenage pregnancies are described as 'continual' problems in the world today. We all have them: Little bits of prejudice that we don't like to admit to. Nevertheless, they are there and they hurt. They have an impact on the way we view the world, whether we like it or not. There are many words for it - profiling, bias, stereotyping, ageism.

How can you be positive during your pregnancy when all you feel is regret for the innocent life growing inside you? How do you tell your parents with out them being ashamed of you? How do you even begin to tell the father? Teenage pregnancy isn't a problem. It's life. Welcome to the 21st century.

Happy Birthday to the beautiful Alfie Benjamin Nadiaon born on the 5th July 2009 x