In the opening scene 6 month pregnant Kayla and her friends are in bikinis and mini-shorts playing volleyball. Supposedly they are seniors in high school. I think maybe this girl got some implants for her Sweet 16.
If those are real - I'm jealous.
When Kayla was 13 she was diagnosed with anorexia and was hospitalized. She is having a hard time with gaining weight during her pregnancy.
Kayla's mom let her boyfriend Mike move in with them. Good thing because prior to that they were 'doing it' on his 101 Dalmation bed sheets. That's just creepy that a baby was conceived on top of some Disney dogs.
Kayla's mom is Deb and she was also a teen mom. Really? That never happens.
Deb takes off with her boyfriend a lot, leaving Kayla at home. Apparently she's only started doing this once Kayla got pregnant. Because you know...that's what you do when your daughter follows in your footsteps and needs you more than ever...abandon her.
Mike quit college to work at Aeropostale so he's gone a lot, too.
Kayla skips meals sometimes because she thinks she's getting fat. She had told her mother that she wanted to see a dietician to get a meal plan to follow (which is really smart) but her mother hasn't done a thing.
She and her friends go to the beach and Kayla doesn't want to take her shirt off because she doesn't want everyone looking at her. I think the MTV camera crew might have something to do with people staring.
Deb doesn't give Kayla any advice about getting prepared for the baby (nursery, necessities, etc.). Mike suggests that they go and price things out. Kayla doesn't seem to know anything about baby gear - I really wish that MTV would give them a complimentary copy of
What To Expect When You're Expecting
before they start filming. Or call Rosie Pope...
Deb agrees to have dinner with her daughter. Kayla asks her to help her out a bit and just be there for her and give her advice since she knows nothing. Deb says she will try to be around more...but when they are putting together the crib one of her questions to her is "Are you worried about going back to school looking heavy?" WHO SAYS THAT? To anyone? Nevermind someone with an eating disorder!
Kayla has gained 12 pounds and she's 31 weeks pregnant so she's worried that she gained too much. She tells her mother that she looks at herself in the mirror and cries. Instead of showing concern, Deb asks "Do you just look at your stomach or do you look at everything?" This is the question you ask lady??? When Kayla says she looks at everything including her stretch marks Deb says "You have stretch marks?" almost like she's grossed out.
Deb does tell her that she will take the first week off from work to help take care of the baby.
I just realized that Kayla's baby daddy and Deb's boyfriend have the same name. Baby daddy Mike is taking off to visit his parents because Deb wants to have a "girls night out" with her daughter. An hour later, Deb tells Kayla that plans changed and she got some free tickets to go to a baseball game so she and her Mike are going.
Kayla is hurt that she didn't invite her and Deb's response is to walk away. Later Kayla calls her mother to let her know how hurt she is and Deb says "I have a life too" and that "You're 17 years old, you do not have to be occupied by your mom 24/7."
This fucking bitch basically abandons her daughter when she needs her most and tells Kayla that they both need to make changes as Kayla cries to her, basically pleading for her to be a mother.
This girl is alone most of the time and she's so afraid of gaining more weight that she doesn't eat all day and has to force herself to eat something. Her friends come over to do a belly cast and she starts getting dizzy and suddenly can't see. Her friends care much more about her than her mother does - they tell her they will make her food to eat and then one talks to her doctor for her.
When she tells the doctor that Kayla has pressure around her head and eyes the doctor tells her to get her to Labor & Delivery immediately. Her friend starts crying because she's scared and I want to cry because I am pissed that Deb isn't around.
Once in the hospital she's having some contractions and they are giving her fluids through an IV. They discharge her after she's doing better and they tell her she needs to eat and drink more. Luckily her friends care and they give her more advice at dinner than her mom has the entire pregnancy.
Deb (probably reluctantly) agrees to go to the nutritionist with her daughter and sits there looking bored.
When the nutritionist suggests that Kayla eat meals with her mother, Deb says that she thinks that Kayla will restrict food when people are around and that she'd do better eating alone. Yes because eating in secret is the best thing for a pregnant anorexic. Is she really THAT stupid or does she not give a shit at all about her daughter and grandson?
Two weeks after the nutritionist told Deb that she needs to be eating meals with Kayla but nothing has changed. We see a text message between the two of them:
If that picture is blurry, it says: Me: I'm hungry. Are we eating dinner? Mom: I'm not hungry so you're on your own."
I can't believe this woman. I imagine that this is what Jenelle will grow up to be. Baby daddy Mike tries to take care of Kayla by getting her to eat but he isn't all that successful.
I FUCKING HATE DEB. This girl needs a mother more than any pregnant teen in previous episodes and her mother basically has abandoned her.
Side note: I think Kayla is friends with a Lohan, a sober one:
No? Does she not look like a Lohan here?
Everyone on 16 & Pregnant has their baby shower like 3 days before their due date. I was due 5/22/10 and I had my shower on the last Sunday in March. I was paranoid about not being ready. Also - Kayla isn't the first one that I've seen painting the baby's room. Was I just making shit up to get out of painting when I told my husband that I couldn't inhale the paint fumes while I was pregnant?
Even though Kayla is in her 40th week, her mom is still spending most of her time with her boyfriend. One night Kayla wakes up because she feels "leaking" and cramping. She's scared so she goes to wake up her mother and her mother tells her to LAY DOWN AND SEE IF YOU FEEL BETTER. She thinks that maybe she's having cramping because she just got out of the shower.
There are no words.
Mike and Kayla leave to go to the hospital without telling her since she obviously doesn't care. On the way Mike tells Kayla that she could have 24 hours of pushing. I laughed out loud at that one. Imagine 24 hours of pushing? I did 2 1/2 hours and it felt like I had just ran a marathon and then pooped out a pumpkin.
Kayla says that you only push for the last second. I laughed out loud again.
At the hospital they confirm that her water broke so she's not leaving until she has the baby. She isn't dilating enough and after 23 hours she's only about 5 centimeters so she needs a C-section. I think this is the first time the camera crew was allowed in the room and they showed them pull the baby out. I hope that scared some teens that wanted to get pregnant to be on MTV.
Preston is really cute and weighed over 8 lbs which surprised me because of her eating disorder.
On the way home I'm left wondering if Mike decided to grow a "molestache" because he thinks that dads need to have facial hair. I hope he shaves soon because someone might think he's a sexual predator.
Once home, Deb actually cooks dinner for everyone. Her boyfriend is there and hasn't said a word.
Deb asks how Kayla feels about doing this all alone with no help. Kayla is surprised by this question since she was supposed to take time off to help out. But nope...Deb's going back to work and thinks that Kayla will be just fine.
Luckily this baby daddy Mike is actually helpful, even in the middle of the night. Kayla was breastfeeding/pumping but she's not producing a lot of milk because she's not eating enough so they have to supplement with formula.
For people that supposedly have no money, they go out to eat a lot and baby Preston is decked out in Adidas.
Surprisingly, they bring they actually acknowledge that they go out to eat a lot. And just in time because now Deb wants $300 a month from them for rent. She says that they probably feel like crap because they don't pay for anything.
Kayla mentions that Mike pays for everything for Preston and for her (I guess as far as food, groceries and diapers). But Deb thinks it is only fair that they contribute. I think that Deb is trying to make money off of her daughter.
Mike can't start working full time because then Kayla wouldn't be able to go back to school. But her daughter getting her diploma obviously means nothing to Deb and she repeats that they need to pay $300 a month. BITCH. Seriously, she didn't bring this up BEFORE so that they could come up with some sort of plan? No - she told them that as long as they took care of Preston then they didn't have to pay rent. But now that the baby is 2 weeks old she says "fuck them!!"
Even though they only have $60 left to buy baby supplies, they choose Pampers which are the most expensive diaper even though the Target brand is right there in front of them.
Kayla's very far behind in her homework. While out to eat with her friends (I hope they paid) her friend Cynthia says "It's kind of like dumb. We don't get to graduate together and stuff. How are you going to feel staying here with Preston, Mike and stuff while we're all off at college?"
Where is her other supportive friend? I don't like Cynthia.
The girls still have sleepovers until they go off to college. They are having a tough time opening up the pack and play even though the instructions are clearly written on the floor of the damn thing.
When Deb is around she brings up to Kayla that she (Deb) has gained weight and that in a few weeks she thinks that Kayla will want to lose weight so they should start watching what they eat together. I'm beginning to see why Kayla had the eating disorder in the first place.
Deb says she'll come home for dinner with Kayla only if she helps her to lose weight and THEN go to her boyfriend's house. Luckily Kayla is smart enough to tell her that they have a dysfunctional family and she seems genuinely apalled at her mother for even asking her to go on a diet with her.
One night the heat doesn't seem to be working and Deb isn't answering the phone. Kayla, Mike and Preston are forced to go stay at a hotel because it is so cold in the house. Awesome. Deb keeps getting better and better!
Kayla confronts Deb and says that she made a lot of promises that she haven't kept. Deb says "Well...I tried."
I think this might be the first teen mom on 16 & Pregnant that didn't piss me off. But her mother did.