Mum reaches breaking point and ABANDONS baby daddy with their little girl in this week’s Teen Mom UK
TEENAGER Mia flees to her grandmother's with her little girl after hearing members of her boyfriend's family call her a 'rubbish mum'
MIA reaches breaking point and abandons Marley, whisking their daughter away with her in this week’s episode of Teen Mom UK.
The teenager’s confidence in her maternal skills reaches rock bottom after hearing her boyfriend’s family call her a “rubbish mum”.
Having given birth during last week’s episode, Mia is on cloud nine when she gets to take little Marliya home three days later.
She gushes: “I literally love her so much, I’ve never felt anything like it before.
“It’s been amazing, even though I’m in pain and I’ve not slept.”
But her elation doesn’t last long, as two weeks after coming home from hospital Mia admits she’s finding it hard being a new mum.
It’s Manley’s second time as a dad – he already has an eight-month-old daughter with his ex-girlfriend Erin – so Mia is determined to show him she can be a good mum.
But cracks start to show as she struggles to stay awake at night to do the night feeds.
Despite being determined to get up to see to her little girl every time she cries, Mia drifts off and sleeps right through the night once again – leaving Manley to do all the feeds and nappy changes.
Realising he’s had barely any sleep all week, Mia feels guilty and confides in Manley’s mum Maggie.
Mia’s guilt quickly turns to insecurity as Manley goes to visit his ex to pick up other daughter Aliya.
She explains: “I’m trying to be OK with this because our little girls are sisters.
“Seeing him with Aliya makes me even more self-conscious.
“He’s done this before and I haven’t.
“I thought being a mum would be the most natural thing ever, but I’m starting to think it’s the hardest.”
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To make matters worse, Mia begins to feel the people around her think she’s not doing a good job.
It doesn’t help when she overhears Manley’s family saying she’s a ‘bad mum’.
She admits: “They’ve made comments about how I need to be more responsible, I need to step up as a mum, about how I’m a rubbish mum.
“To hear people making comments behind my back saying that I’m not doing as well as I thought I was, that’s obviously heart-breaking for any new mum to hear.”
“I just feel the pressure. I shouldn’t really as I should just be enjoying this time with Marley and not worrying what other people think. It really hurts.
“I was looking forward to being a mum so much, but I’m finding it really tough.”
Having reached breaking point, Mia packs up and flees to her grandma’s house with Marliya to sort her head out.
She admits she thought Manley would come after her, and is gutted when he ignores her messages.
Mia sighs: “He’s not even on my side.
“It hurts even more that everyone says Manley’s such an amazing dad. It shouldn’t be a competition and now I feel like everyone’s comparing me and nothing I do is right.”
Can the pair of them patch things up?
Meanwhile Chloe signs Marley up for a baby photoshoot.
The news doesn’t go down well with boyfriend Jordan, however, who was furious she hadn’t told him and accuses her of “forcing him” into modelling.
He points out: “He’s a baby, he can’t say no,” to which Chloe replies: “Yeh but he wants to. I just want to show everybody else how beautiful my baby is.”
Later Chloe explains: “I just want to do something with my life, I feel like every day I wake up and do the same routine.
“I want Marley to have someone to look up to.”
Teen Mom UK airs on Wednesdays at 8pm, only on MTV.