Melbourne teen mum pregnant with second baby at 15

Melbourne teen mum pregnant with second baby at 15 15-year-old Melbourne girl pregnant with second child MOLLIE SYRIGOS made headlines in 2016 when she fell pregnant at the age of 13, making her one of Australia’s youngest mothers. She is now mum to 1-year-old Theodore, and has just discovered that she is pregnant with her second child at age 15. The teen student is due to give birth to baby number two in December. Her partner and father of the two children, Oscar Wilks, is one year older than Mollie at 16. They say they are excited about the new addition to their family, though it wasn’t planned. “I know it will a huge challenge but I’m prepared for that challenge. When you love something so much challenges sort of make you stronger and I’m ready for the challenges and very excited for the new baby to come,” she told Nine.com.au. With the new announcement comes another wave of judgment from friends, family and strangers on social media. Recalling her first pregnancy, Mollie told the Herald Sun that the most hurtful response came from friends. One mocked the Facebook announcement of their pregnancy by posting: “Hahaha.” Once Oscar knew his girlfriend would have their baby, he knew he wanted to be part of it. “We’re doing fine. We’re terrific parents, but domestically we’re not great housekeepers,” he says. Tim, his dad, agrees with that. The young family live with him in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. “They’re messy, but they’re teenagers,” he says. He didn’t expect grandfatherhood for a decade from any of his three children — especially his youngest by six years. He gulped when he learned the couple were having a baby. Perhaps he shouldn’t have been surprised. They’d been living together at his house for six months after they met through mutual friends when Mollie was 13 and Oscar 14. Mollie had some passing teenage conflict with her single mum and left home; Oscar admits he took “advantage a bit” of his dad’s fragile health. “I knew he wouldn’t be able to come in and beat our door down,” he says of Tim, who is still mobile but suffers from multiple sclerosis. Mollie’s high school studies stalled at the end of year 7. But since having Theodore, Mollie has started back at school, at Swinburne University of Technology’s secondary school classes for young mothers. If Mollie hadn’t have fallen pregnant, she’d have been part-way through year 10. (Oscar says she’s a “genius” and will go a long way.) Now she’s doing year 11 studies, which might help her pursue work with animals or helping people. “I don’t really know specifically what I want to do, but I do want to keep up my education.” Though baby number two will throw a bit of a spanner in the works, for the time being any way. When Mollie found out she was pregnant with Theodore, she started working at Oscar’s dad’s frozen yoghurt shop. Oscar worked there too. For weeks she felt the pressure from some friends, family and doctors to have an abortion. She would disappear into the work toilets and cry. Almost everyone was telling her to terminate her pregnancy. But she wouldn’t. In the early days, before the pregnancy test, she thought she had a bout of gastro. It was actually morning sickness and, she says, all the signs were there that she was pregnant. She and Oscar were together when the pregnancy test kit showed up two stripes clearly. “Is it possible that second stripe will disappear in a moment?” Oscar asked her. “No, this means I’m pregnant,” Mollie told him. The two say they were using contraceptives at the time she conceived.