A MOTHER has revealed that she got pregnant with her first child at the age of 18.
Kai Slobert and her now wife, Dee, who met in high school, were both homeless and living in shelters at the time when they decided to have a child and conceive via a free sperm donor.
Revealing all to Truly on an episode of My Extraordinary Family, the couple opened up on having a child while they were still teenagers.
Kai said: “I was homeless and I chose to have a baby.
“I would never promote it. It was just my situation at the time and I was young.
“I love kids, and I just decided to have kids on my own. Everybody’s circumstances are different, but the choice is yours, it’s your life.”
When asked how they conceived, Kai reflected: “We decided to conceive by finding a donor that was free.
“We ended up finding him through Google search – I just put ‘free sperm donor’.”
The couple have been married for five years and their daughter, Kaidee, is now five years old.
They also have a second daughter, Faith, who is three.
Mum-of-two Kai opened up on how her parents reacted when they first discovered she was pregnant.
She shared: “They weren’t very pleased when they found out I was pregnant at a young age.
[bc_video account_id=”5067014667001″ application_id=”” aspect_ratio=”16:9″ autoplay=”” caption=”I’ll be a gran at 38 as my daughter’s pregnant at 14 – I know instantly after the question she asked me” embed=”in-page” experience_id=”” height=”100%” language_detection=”” max_height=”360px” max_width=”640px” min_width=”0px” mute=”” padding_top=”56%” picture_in_picture=”” player_id=”default” playlist_id=”” playsinline=”” sizing=”responsive” video_id=”6368814309112″ video_ids=”” width=”640px”]“They wished I waited a little longer before trying considering the situation I was in.
“It was hard because me and her were separated at first, so it was just me in the pregnancy shelter.
“It was my first experience being pregnant and I was alone.
“When Kaidee was born, I was still homeless, I was in the shelter, by myself.
“Then a few months later, my wife came along with me and we stayed there for a few months until we got our apartment.
“Our circumstances have changed drastically since then, of course we’re not homeless any more.”
Both of Kai and Dee’s children are aware of how they were conceived and refer to their donor siblings as ‘diblings’.
[quote credit=”Kai Slobert “]I was homeless and I chose to have a baby. I would never promote it. It was just my situation at the time and I was young[/quote]Now, the family share their life on social media, but while they have been met with a lot of positivity, they have also found themselves at the heart of harsh judgement.
As well as comments about being homeless when they had Kaidee, they have received negativity about being a two mum family.
They have even been told ‘18-year-old homeless couples shouldn’t be having kids’ and ‘this should be illegal’, by cruel haters.
Despite this, Kai and Dee hope the future holds a lot of success and happiness as well as more children, as Kai said: “We are in the process of trying to conceive for not one, but two more and hopefully conceive at the same time and be pregnant together.”
The couple hope sharing their story clarifies and corrects some misconceptions, as Kai recognised: “We hope that people learn that, for one, we are not an 18-year-old homeless couple.
“We are now adults that have lived and learned.”
Big divide
The YouTube clip, which was posted just one day ago, has clearly left many open-mouthed, as it has quickly amassed almost 10,000 views.
But viewers were left totally divided – whilst many were complimentary, not everyone was as kind.
[quote credit=”YouTube user “]You shouldn’t put your selfish desires over your child’s quality of life[/quote]One user wrote: “They’re doing a good job with the girls.”
Whilst a second penned: “Very sweet couple.”
However, at the same time, another person said: “You shouldn’t put your selfish desires over your child’s quality of life.”
Meanwhile, another added: “How selfish. They are not financially secure, but they want to add more kids. This is so sad.”
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