Amy makes plans to go with him, planning on taking John with her, but her plans are foiled by her parents and her responsibilities as a new mother. She is further angered when she finds out Ben has been offered a job in Italy and plans on taking it. Amy's life is further complicated when her mother reveals that she is pregnant, possibly with her boss and boyfriend David's baby.Īmy is upset when she finds out that she has to attend summer school because of the classes she missed while she was pregnant. Now living alone with her mother after her parents' divorce, Amy struggles to balance her new life as a teenage mother with her life as a high school student. She finally gives birth to her son ( And Unto Us, A Child Is Born), whom she and Ashley name John, Ashley saying that it's "a basic name for a complicated life." While in labor, Amy flashes back to the first time she met Ricky, as well as the events at band camp that led up to their having sex ( One Night at Band Camp). However, shortly before the party, Amy goes into labor and is rushed to the hospital ( Whoomp! (There It Is)). Grace and Adrian offer to throw Amy a baby shower before the baby arrives. ![]() Ricky, Ben, Ashley, and Amy's parents offer to help raise the child, with Grace and Jack offering Amy a job at the church nursery, as well as a place for her child to stay while Amy is at school. Amy ultimately decides to keep the baby shortly after finding out that the baby is a boy ( That's Enough of That). Amy's family and friends are also torn on the issue, with Ricky, Ashley, and George convinced that Amy should keep the baby, while Anne stands behind Amy's decision to put the baby up for adoption. At first, Amy sets her mind on giving the baby up and has an arrangement with Donovan and his partner Leon, but the two back out at the last minute, preferring to remain foster parents to 6 children that needed a home. Months before the baby's birth, Amy struggles with deciding to put the baby up for adoption or raising the baby herself. Finally, aided by Grace and Ben, Amy makes the decision to return to her high school and continue her freshman year as a teenage mother ( Back to School Special). Amy then decides to attend a school specifically targeted towards aiding teenage mothers but is talked out of it by her father. Amy's mother initially teases the idea of Amy living with her grandmother Mimsy until the baby is born, but the idea is quickly scrapped after Mimsy reveals that she has Alzheimer's and her memory and sanity are deteriorating quickly. This is complicated by the fact that Amy's mother and father's marriage is on the rocks, and that the two are on the brink of divorce. Pressured by her friends, pediatrician, and sister, who have all figured out that she is pregnant, Amy reveals her pregnancy to her mother ( Love for Sale). Ben decides to get engaged to Amy after finding out about the pregnancy, thinking it will help her situation. They soon fall in love, and the two stay together throughout the season, even after Ben reveals to Amy he knows' that she is pregnant with Ricky's baby ( What Have You Done to Me?). ![]() Despite her pregnancy, Amy starts dating Ben Boykewich after he asks her out. Amy at first decides to have an abortion, but backs out at the last minute and decides to keep the baby. She tells her two best friends, Lauren Treacy and Madison Cooperstein, who accidentally spread the news around school. In the pilot episode, Amy takes a pregnancy test and finds out that she is pregnant. ![]() She spent the summer prior to the series at band camp, where she met drummer Ricky Underwood and lost her virginity to him. ![]() Grant High School and is a French horn player in the band. At the start of the show, Amy is a freshman at Ulysses S.
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