Madi Collins 18 — And Pregnant

It was the question everyone asked, wrapped in different packaging. Are you keeping it? Are you getting married? Are you dropping out of school? Madi didn’t have answers. She only knew that when she saw that tiny, bean-shaped heartbeat flutter on the screen, something primal clicked into place. It wasn’t a consequence anymore. It was a person. A very small, very dependent person.

Madi Collins was eighteen and pregnant. Now she was nineteen and a mother. And for the first time in a long time, she wasn’t afraid of what came next. She was just… ready. madi collins 18 and pregnant

“It’s a girl,” Madi whispered. “We have a daughter.” It was the question everyone asked, wrapped in

She didn’t know if she and Leo would make it. She didn’t know if she’d ever get her degree. She didn’t know if she’d ever look at her friends’ travel photos without a twinge of loss. Are you dropping out of school