A teenage mum has explained how she “cannot wait to have her body back” after spending almost two full years being pregnant.
Gracie, 19, is expecting her second baby in a couple of weeks, who will be just nine months older than their younger sibling, because she became pregnant again just two weeks after giving birth to her first child.
The young mum, from the US, revealed the unusual scenario on social media after sharing a picture of her second baby bump.
She has faced a backlash from some trolls who have cruelly suggested having two babies at such a young age, so close together, was not acceptable.
However, Gracie, hit back at the comments on TikTok, according to Mirror Online.
“I’ve been pregnant for almost two years straight and I’m ready to give birth to this baby and have my body back,” she said in the clip.
Posted from her handle @317graciee, the mum continued: “Yes it’s most healthy to wait for your body to heal. If I could go back in knowing what I know now I would have waited."
Gracie went on to say she “couldn’t care less” what anyone thinks of her and her partner becoming parents while teenagers, adding: “He is an amazing father and we have always wanted two kids.”
Many TikTok users rushed to the comments section to question why she and her partner didn’t wait the standard six weeks between giving birth and having intercourse, but Gracie said they “weren’t educated” as the doctor told them they could do it when they felt ready.
“I didn’t want to wait clearly that’s why I did it but if I could go back knowing the risks that were involved I would have" Gracie responded to one follower.
“After this child we do not plan on having another baby until 5+ years. I am getting a IUD. My baby is beyond taken care of and this one will be too. We have our own home, own cars, own bank accounts. We are grown.
“Our families are 100 per cent involved in our children’s life but they ABSOLUTELY do not raise our babies. He works a full-time job and I’m a stay at home.”
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