Too Young to be a Mum: Can Jess learn to be a good mummy, when she is only a child herself?

by Maggie Hartley

Overview

When sixteen-year-old Jess arrives on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep with her newborn son Jimmy, she has nowhere else to go. Arriving straight from the hospital having just given birth, Jess is like a rabbit caught in the headlights. Scared, alone, and practically a child herself, she is overwhelmed with the responsibility of caring for a newborn without the support of a loving family or her beloved boyfriend. With social services threatening to take baby Jimmy into care, Jess knows that Maggie is her only chance of keeping her son.

Maggie can see that Jess loves her boyfriend and wants to be a good mother to her son. Can Maggie help Jess learn to become a mum? Will the family ever be allowed to live together?

A true story of hope from Sunday Times bestselling author Maggie Hartley, a foster carer for over 20 years.

'Didn't want it to end' 5* Amazon reader review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409170532
Publisher:	Orion Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/07/2017
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Maggie Hartley has fostered more than 300 children while being a foster carer for over twenty years. Taking on the children other carers often can't cope with, Maggie helps children that are deemed 'unadoptable' because of their behaviour or the extreme trauma that they've been through. She's looked after refugees, supported children through sexual abuse and violence court cases, cared for teenagers on remand and taught young mums how to parent their newborn babies.

You can find her on Facebook at /MaggieHartleyAuthor, where she would love to hear from you.

Table of Contents

A Message from Maggie ix

1 On the Move 1

2 Pushing the Boundaries 14

3 Broken Promises 26

4 Learning to be Mummy 38

5 A Visit from Daddy 53

6 Meetings and Meltdowns 68

7 A Bambshell 83

8 Fight or Flight 99

9 Breaking Point 116

10 On the Run 137

11 Repercussions 151

12 Decision Time 164

13 Second Chances 180

14 Routines and Rules 192

15 Under Pressure 204

16 An Emergency Dash 217

17 The Right Move 229

18 Goodbye Again 237

19 A Family at Last 247

Epilogue 255

Acknowledgements 257