‘My period was late, my boobs bigger. My boyfriend joked I was pregnant. Shaking, I took the test on a McDonald’s toilet.’: Teen mom delivers baby on bathroom floor, ‘She wasn’t waiting around for anyone!’

For the next few days, I went back and forth on what I wanted to do. I wanted the baby, then the idea of having the baby terrified me. I argued constantly with my boyfriend, who didn’t want to keep the baby at all.

Then, on Christmas Day, something clicked: I was going to have a baby. I was going to have a baby no matter how hard it was. I was going to have a baby whether my boyfriend stuck around or not.

My boyfriend came round, we were both still terrified and in shock, but slowly the idea started to become less and less scary. I started to imagine myself as a mother, something that up until this point in my life I’d never really given a second thought to. My baby grew inside me, and my confidence in myself and my ability to be a good parent grew as well.