What if we want a baby?

I'm 16 and my boyfriend is 18 and we want a baby.
Can you please help me on this one.

Wat is it you want to know?

Unfortunately you are very far from my place, anyways I would be happy to help you..

LOL... gotta love the simple silly answers "Unfortunately you are very far from my place, anyways I would be happy to help you.". But seriously, you need the birds and the bees speech or do you still believe that a stork will come to give you a baby? Either way you get the baby make sure that he has a good job first. You will spend an average of around 400+ a month on Pampers alone. The hospital bill can run from 5k with no complications to 20k plus if they have to save your life or anything, so he really should get insurance that will cover you for your pregnancy with all the checkups. Then the average cost of raising a child in the US is around 10k a year till they are 18 or 180,000 (this only gets a child the bare minimums in life). However, you and he look like a cute couple and I am sure he already makes 50k a year to support you and the baby (That is a job that makes over 20 per hour) and you guys probably own your own home and are looking at the school systems in your area for your child to attend a school that will give the best chances to go onto higher education.

You kids seem to know what you want. There are plenty of tips you can ask here about all the details of pregnancy (breast pumps, morning sickness, etc). Have fun making a baby.

Oh and when you get to the stage when the kid goes to school and has behavior problems and you get phone calls from teachers and principles and 30 minutes of homework to juggle on top of cleaning the house, making dinner, being alert at work, making Cub scouts and sports practice 3 nights a week (or, you could just plop him down in front of the TV with a bag of Doritos so he can add to the child obesity epidemic) buying new clothes every 2 months cause the kid's growing like a weed, your baby daddy's new girlfriend treats your kid like crap, and you haven't had a night on the town to yourself in 3 months, be sure to contact me for advice about that, too.

And don't forget, by age ten, they want ipods, computers, stereos, cell phones, and all sorts of fun and expensive stuff.

But isn't that baby just soooo cute?

Juniperone said it all quite nicely. Props!!

I really think you should think about the baby instead of what you want. There is no way that someone as young as you (and me) could give a baby everything it will need to be healthy and happy and able to have a good life. So think long and hard before you make the decision to bring a life into the world.