Abstract
This paper describes a baby born to adolescent parents. It underlines the importance for adolescent parents to have a supportive network and good internalised parents of their own in order for them to parent successfully whilst transitioning from adolescence to adulthood. It illustrates how initially the parents relied heavily on their extended families, specifically the mother's relationship with her own mother, to support them in order for them to contain their baby's anxieties. This enabled them to parent Jack, in turn allowing him to internalise them. Separateness from the extended families allowed the adolescents to develop as parents. Losses, including dad's departure for a period of time, fostered mother and baby's exclusive relationship. However, when the family was reunited and moved into their own home, two firmly became three.
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