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    Teenage pregnancy and early childbirth make young women susceptible to

    socio-economic vulnerability and life struggles. According to Paranjothy et


    al. (2009), It may be due to socioeconomic conditions that precede early
    pregnancy and childbirth, but teenage pregnancy and childbirth are linked
    to an increased risk of worse health and well-being for both the mother and
    the baby. Future research should look at the effects of adolescent
    fatherhood on health as there is little evidence to support this. The result is
    a continuance of the growing disparity in health and social inequities in
    society. Teenage antenatal clinics and access to programs that assist early
    parenting are examples of evidence-based public health treatments that
    should be used to identify susceptible youths and help those who are
    pregnant. Even some people would tend to disagree the fact of teenage
    pregnancy cases, teenage pregnancy is a global problem and is considered
    a high-risk group, in spite of conflicting evidence. Our objective was to
    compare obstetric outcomes of pregnancy in teenagers and older women.
    This was a retrospective study of case records of pregnancies from August
    2000 to July 2001. Girls aged ≤19 years were compared with pregnancy
    outcomes in older women (19–35 years) in the same hospital. The study
    took place in the Government General Hospital, Sangli, India, a teaching
    hospital in rural India, with an annual delivery rate of over 3,500. A total of
    386 teenage pregnancies were compared with pregnancies in 3,326 older
    women. Socioeconomic data, age, number of pregnancies, antenatal care
    and complications, mode of delivery, and neonatal outcomes were
    considered. The incidence of teenage pregnancy in the study was 10%. A
    significant proportion of teenage pregnant mothers were in their first
    pregnancies (Mahavarkar et al., 2008).
    Some studies also show that teenage pregnancy poses a greater risk for
    young women to acquire unfortunate or critical sicknesses. According to
    Kumar et al. (2007), premature birth, preterm labor, preeclampsia, PIH, and
    PET were all considerably more likely to occur in teen pregnancies. Babies
    born to adolescent moms also had higher rates of neonatal morbidity and
    mortality. Teenagers who were still in their teen years were most at risk for
    poor obstetric and neonatal outcomes. Medical consequences of teenage
    pregnancy as anemia, pregnancy-induced hypertension, low birth weight,
    prematurity, intra-uterine growth retardation and neonatal mortality.
    Critical appraisal suggested that increased risks of these outcomes were
    predominantly caused by the social, economic, and behavioral factors that
    predispose some young women to pregnancy. Maternal age less than 16
    years was associated with a modest increase in prematurity, low birth
    weight and neonatal death (Cunnington, 2001).

    Sources:
    Cunnington, A. J. (2001). What's so bad about teenage pregnancy?. BMJ
    Sexual & Reproductive Health, 27(1), 36-41
    Kumar, A., Singh, T., Basu, S., Pandey, S., & Bhargava, V. (2007). Outcome
    of teenage pregnancy. The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 74, 927-931.
    Mahavarkar, S. H., Madhu, C. K., & Mule, V. D. (2008). A comparative
    study of teenage pregnancy. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 28(6), 604-
    607.
    Paranjothy, S., Broughton, H., Adappa, R., & Fone, D. (2009). Teenage
    pregnancy: who suffers?. Archives of disease in childhood, 94(3), 239-245.

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