

15-year-old Georgia Hageman lives at home with her parents in New Zealand.
In November last year, Georgia found out she was pregnant.
After splitting with the baby’s father and enduring hospitalisations at 30 weeks after going into pre-term labour, Georgia has cited her unborn son as the reason she keeps going.
She has already named her son Mason and now, at 35 weeks, Georgia has decided to speak out about her experiences in the hope of helping other young, teenage mothers.
Speaking to the New Zealand Herald, Georgia was adamant she was ‘lucky’ to have the support not many other young mums could dream of.
“I’ve been incredibly, incredibly fortunate to have my parents support me in the way they have. I don’t know what I would have done without them,” she said.
“A lot of girls that are in my position … they don’t have the support. That’s why I want to offer as much support to them because I can understand and relate what feelings and emotions you go through.”
Her letter begins:
Georgia goes on to say that she misses her old life, and that she “made the decision to grow up too quickly” because she thought “everybody else was doing it. However, the hardest part is knowing what other people are thinking, and that she would have thought the same:
But Georgia is determined to give her son the best start in life. She writes:
She ends with a message for both those who judge, and for those girls in her situation:
What an incredible young woman.
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