These steps are what I felt I needed to do for my daughters when they got pregnant.
If you have further steps that I have not thought of PLEASE send them to me.

1. DON'T FREAK OUT... DON'T SAY ANY WORDS THAT YOU MAY REGRET IN THE FUTURE!!!

2. Find a good doctor to give your daughter great pre-natal care. (Warning: Some doctors are prejudiced against teen mothers. Make sure the doctor you pick is concerned and open-minded.)

3. Go to the doctor visits with your daughter.

4. Find out if your insurance would cover her and the baby's birth.

5. If the insurance will not, then help your daughter to get financial assistance. (We had one daughter that the insurance covered... the other daughter we had a different kind and they would not cover her.)

6. Find out what choice your child has made dealing with this pregnancy. I'm not one who would suggest an abortion. (However, if when I was growing up I had gotten pregnant from the incest I was suffering through... I could not have dealt with a pregnancy of this type.) Make sure your child knows all the different choices there are out there. Keeping her baby, putting her baby up for adoption, and then in certain situations - abortion.

7. Find out if her school system has programs to help out pregnant teens.

8. Help to find a support group's for both of them. Check with their High School's Family Teacher.

9. Find out how supportive the father is going to be. (Don't be shocked if the father denies it is his. Unfortunately with my older daughter, the father agreed it was his child. Until his parents kept telling him otherwise... so then he denied any responsibility.)

10. Most importantly, give your child all the positive support you can. They will feel guilty. Help them to constantly know that you still love them desperately. They need to know this more NOW than any other help you can give them. Don't just say the words... live the words!!!

If "YOU" can think of more helpful hints, please contact me. I would love to share all major hints with others here on my site.