Pregnancy and Health Care

Archive for the ‘Teenage Pregnancy’ Category

The young pregnant woman is at risk for anemia, preeclampsia and birth complications and high mortality risk during pregnancy itself.

Babies of teenage mothers have a high rate of mortality as well as congenital malformations can experience, developmental problems, mental retardation, blindness, epilepsy or cerebral palsy. These children have many more behavioral problems and decreased intellectual functioning.

There are marital problems and more likely to divorce young couples who joined product of a pregnancy. Because of this, the children of teenagers spend much of his life in a single parent, and they become a potential population to generate unwanted pregnancies in adolescence future. Read the rest of this entry »

It is not intended to advocacy of abortion, but the psychological report arising from an unwanted pregnancy at an early age.

In adolescence, changes occur in the body of the young when they begin to experience feelings that had not conocían.De soon, teens feel controlled by their hormones, reaching a fervent desire to live a sexual relationship , whether by desire or simple curiosity.

Many unwanted pregnancies occur in this stage and a major cause is usually unknown . Remember that births from teenage mothers are still very high in Spain, which shows the inefficiency of sex education in recent years. Read the rest of this entry »

The teenage pregnancies are increasing . Today, throughout Latin America 900,000 adolescents are already mothers, according to the Latin American Women and Health (CELSAM). And these figures are repeated throughout the world.
In early February, the story of a boy of 13 who was the father with his girlfriend of 15 revived the controversy about unplanned teenage pregnancies . While not the first known case in public paternity at an early age, the young man managed to shock the world by their appearance as they did not exceed 7 or 8 years.

According to a report CELSAM, 11% of boys of 12, began sexually and 68% of those 15 also. And seeing all these figures, I come to mind two questions that are of critical importance: why the number of pregnancies continue to grow and how prepared are these young people to bring a person into the world. Read the rest of this entry »

The emotional and psychological characteristics of adolescence are a major factor in the occurrence of pregnancy in this age group.

Young women experience feelings of loneliness, low self-confidence to try supplementing with intimate relationships with the opposite sex.

There is little or no communication with their parents or older sisters, especially in regard to sex. This leads them to seek and find the opinion and advice from other people his age with his own inexperience and lack of proper standards of conduct.

There is also an inordinate desire to get into contact with “new experiences.”

Among teenage mothers there is a common factor to all of them: poor school performance history. There is a high rate of early school dropout, especially among younger mothers.

In addition it appears that girls included in special education programs are also more likely to get pregnant in their teens.

All statistics are showing that there is a greater number of pregnancies among adolescents whose families are separated and in single-parent families. Read the rest of this entry »