But the baby-faced schoolgirl and her sometime boyfriend Nathan Fishbourne have just become Britain’s youngest parents after conceiving son Jamie when they were both only 13.
April and schoolfriend Nathan started having unprotected sex after they began dating in September last year.
She was ‘too embarrassed’ to tell her parents about the sexual side to their relationship until she found out she was pregnant a day before her 14th birthday.
Growing up fast: April Webster, 14, with five-week-old Jamie Fishbourne
The baby arrived by Caesarean section on November 15, weighing 8lb 14oz. The teenagers are still trying to work out how to cope with parenthood while still children themselves – and even whether they remain a couple.
While Nathan, who is now also 14, insists they are still an item, April claimed they were having a ‘cooling off’ period and was unsure if their relationship would resume.
She said: ‘He has not turned his back on the baby but he’s asking to do things like have him stay over at his house and that has caused some arguments. We have a few things to sort out’.
Yesterday Nathan’s grandmother, Deirdre Rolph, 66, added to the confusion by claiming the teenagers were ‘very in love’.
The pair, who were in the same year at St Cenydd Comprehensive School in their home town of Caerphilly, South Wales, started seeing each other when they were aged 13. April left school 16 weeks into the pregnancy and now attends an educational centre for young mothers.
Baby Jamie: Blissfully unaware of the fact he's got the country's youngest mum and dad
April lives with parents Jeff, 38, a taxi driver, and Maria, 36 at their four-bedroom end-of-terrace home.
The couple have been foster parents for the last four years. April and Jamie share a bedroom with her older sister Robyn, 17, who helps bottle feed the baby.
Nathan’s parents, Ron, 53, a retired truck driver, and Julie, 43, said they were angry with him at first over the pregnancy, but were now ready to ‘accept Jamie into our family’.
As a couple, April and Nathan are Britain’s youngest ever parents.
The youngest mother on record is Tressa Middleton, who became pregnant at 11 and gave birth aged 12 years and eight months in Edinburgh in 2006.
The youngest father ever is Sean Stewart, from Bedford, who became a father aged 12 in 1998. In both cases the other parent of their babies was older. ( dailymail.co.uk )
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