The Reason Behind 'Teen Mom' Mackenzie Douthit's Second Pregnancy Is Hard to Believe

vrijdag 13 september 2013

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by Jeanne Sager 16 hours ago

Ever since news leaked that Mackenzie Douthit is pregnant with baby number two, the Teen Mom 3 star has been fielding a lot of criticism. She isn't even 19! And her second pregnancy came before she and Josh McKee even got married!

Why would a girl who fought a hard fight with her mom to get herself on birth control to prevent a second pregnancy make a move so many are calling dumb? She's finally given the world an answer ... and, well, it's interesting.

Challenged on Twitter about baby number two, Mackenzie challenged her critics right back:

If a doctor told you your body would no longer be able to have babies after the age 21. And your married and 19. What would you do?

Well, when you put it that way ...

I can't say that the doctor's order to Mackenzie really makes that much sense to me. Generally practitioners don't begin putting an age limit on procreation until women are much older than the Teen Mom. She's 19, not 39.

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But Mackenzie does have health problems, including type one diabetes, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that her doctor might have told her that she may have limitations on childbearing. It happens to women all the time.

The question is what would you do? If a doctor did tell you that you didn't have that much time left to have a baby, and you really wanted one?

Would you start going at it like rabbits just to make it happen, just to make sure that the opportunity doesn't pass you by?

Fellow Teen Mom 3 star Briana DeJesus joked that Mackenzie should "have sex til ur vagina explodes."

And, well, I get it. I'm a one and done mom here, and I feel so strongly that one is right for my family that I can understand how a woman might feel that she NEEDS two or three or whatever number seems "right" for her family. Sometimes you just "know" deep down what is right for you, and you do what you have to do to make it happen.

What do you think of Mackenzie's explanation? What would you do in her shoes?

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writes articles for The Stir by day, slays closet monsters and bounds through bedtime stories with her elementary schooler by night. The Phineas and Ferb soundtrack reverberates through her brain.

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'Teen Mom 3' Mackenzie Douthit’s Confession Will Devastate Her Son One Day (VIDEO)

woensdag 7 augustus 2013

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by Nicole Fabian-Weber 16 hours ago

Teen Mom 3 star Mackenzie Douthit made a confession many teen moms (famous or not) have probably thought at one point or another. Douthit said she wishes she never got pregnant. During an emotional interview after her 16 and Pregnant days, Douthit candidly said: "I don't want my son to ever hear me say this, but I wish I would have never got pregnant." She also says she doesn't like hearing that she's a "mom". Doutit talks about how she loves her son, but says that she's 17 and doesn't want to hear that.

Douthit clearly was not ready or mature enough to have a child, but guess what? She did. And she needs to grow up.

My situation is completely different from Douthit's or any teen mom's, as I had my daughter in my 30s. But I can't, for the life of me, fathom ever saying, "I wish I never I never got pregnant." Not only because I don't feel that way, but because I can't think of anything more hurtful for a child to hear. That's like basically saying: "I wish you didn't exist." And the fact that Douthit said it to MTV, on film, makes it even worse. There really isn't a "I hope my son won't hear this" here. It's more "when will my son hear this?"

I don't doubt that Mackenzie loves and cares about her son very much, but she obviously has some things she needs to both work out and accept -- like the fact that she made the decision to have unprotected sex and have a child, so she is a mom, no matter how much she dislikes hearing the name. And it's heartbreaking to hear her say something as hurtful as "I wish I never got pregnant" not only for her son's sake, but because so many women who would love to get pregnant can't.

Hopefully by the time little Gannon is old enough to Google his mother, the two will have had a long chat about all the things she regretfully said before she came to accept, and love, their unique situation. But I kind of don't think that's going to happen any time soon.

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