An Open Letter to Every Teen Mom on Mother’s Day.

Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Eighteen and Pregnant.

Renee Dubeau
GenX Mama
Published in
13 min readMay 1, 2022

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Photo by Tamara Bellis on Unsplash

My senior year of high school was one of the most terrifying years of my life. I was preparing to go away to college on scholarship for pre-med when I realized something was changing in my body. It didn’t really even occur to me that I might be pregnant, but all the signs…

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Renee Dubeau
GenX Mama

Creative Nonfiction Author, Mental Health First Aid, Healthcare Access Freak & Social Justice Renegade.