11 year old girl to be a mum....UPDATED

A schoolgirl who became pregnant at the age of 11 is set to break the record for being the UK's youngest mother. Now aged 12, she has told a national newspaper how she is "really excited" about the prospect of having a child after losing her virginity to a boy aged 15 in Edinburgh. She is due to give birth in a few weeks, breaking the record set by Jenny Teague of Dorset, who had a baby aged 12 years and nine months in 1997.

The girl, who has not been named, told The Sun: "I think I'll be able to cope as I've had lots of practice looking after my brothers."

She feared that she might be pregnant after having unprotected sex with the boy on a night out with friends in Edinburgh last August.

The pregnancy was confirmed with the help of a supermarket home-testing kit.

Her 34-year-old mother told the newspaper: "I'm not ashamed of my daughter at all - in fact, I'm proud of her for keeping her baby."

The mum-to-be, who smokes up to 20 cigarettes a day according to the newspaper, said she hoped the baby would be a boy.

"I'm enjoying being pregnant - even though I get a bit of a sore back and sore ribs," she said.

going to be a mum at 12, has a 20 a day habit.

good.

I just think that awful because, shes still a kid herself! but she'll need to grow up so quickly!!! the world is a mad one!

Shouldn't the mother of the child be done for child abuse the pregnancy aside letting a 12 year old develop a 20 a day habit.

Yes but this is all illegal you know.

Plenty of laws against this.

Not that it matters.

I feel sorry for the baby,

Just wondering how many kids she'll have by the time she left school,

exactly its illegal for her and the boy to have done that thang and its illegal for her to buy cigarettes anyway, so how has she got access to them!
I feel for the poor kid really do!

Illegal for a 12 year old to smoke.
Illegal for a 15 year old boy to have sex
Illegal for a 11 year old girl to have sex...isn't this classed as paedophilia?

All she needs now is to hijack an aircraft and her total waste of space to society badge is hers.

I bet she will get benefits and be a drain to the humble taxpayer.

Sounds like a classy kind of gal

I thought they were suppossed to be outside playing in the sun rather than smoking and changing nappies

But whos to blame the girl. the boy, the girls parents or the teachers at school

OK she pregant can't change that now but the cigarette habit - shouldn't she be getting help for that plus the doctors must have told her its not good for the baby