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A woman who gave birth to her first child at 16 is becoming a grandmother at 33.
Kerrie Coles, 33, gave birth to her first daughter Millie, 16, in February 2007, at Milton Keynes University Hospital, weighing 6lb 11oz.
She then gave birth to her second daughter Hollie, 14, in January, 2009, weighing 7lbs.
Hollie is now pregnant with her own child - making Kerrie one of Britain's youngest grandmothers.
Video: SWNS
Transcript
00:00 I feel like being a mum made me grow up really fast and everyone used to always tell me that
00:07 I was really mature so I think having a baby at 16 was what done that to me. Being a mum
00:17 of 5 now and my second child coming to me and telling me that she was pregnant was a
00:23 huge shock because she's only 14 and I'm just worried about her finishing off the rest of
00:30 her school years and her GCSEs. After getting over the shock we are supporting her and we
00:37 just want to make sure that she doesn't feel like she's alone in this and making sure that
00:43 she's just always got someone to rely on. I feel like I'm in quite a good position to
00:48 help her because I've been in the same position as her before so I can go from my own experiences
00:55 of what's best for her maybe and I just want to let her be the baby's mum but also know
01:02 that I'm there to support her and come to me if she needs me.
01:16 Being pregnant and my mum having children at a young age has really helped because she
01:21 knows how to be supportive and help me because she didn't have all the support that I have
01:26 now that she can give and when he's here she'll be able to help as well with having children
01:31 of her own as well. And I think what is important also is that
01:37 you and Max also have time together because that's something that we haven't really had
01:43 so I want to make sure that you guys can still be yourselves and not just parents.
01:50 So far the pregnancy has been really good. I haven't had much sickness or anything so
01:56 at the start it was really easy, it's just now that he moves loads that sleeping and
02:01 doing things is really difficult sometimes.
02:04 I'm really happy that I've been able to help him. I'm really happy that he's been able to help me.

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