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Consequences of Teen Pregnancy
Support for young pregnant women ensures a better outcome of pregnancy and also a physically and emotionally proper growth of the unborn baby. was 19 and was in the senior year. Although his parents never punished and always listened, she thinks she missed something very important: never talked to him about sex.When she ventured to have sex with her boyfriend did not know how to use contraception much less is spent per head requires your partner. The Catholic school also helped him out of his ignorance.
She believed that by washing their genitals after intercourse was safe, but after a couple of weeks passed and no period arrived, became suspicious.He waited patiently for the first spots in his underwear to give him the happy news that mom would not, but the heavy breasts and sore nipples seemed to show that she refused to believe. Her boyfriend was studying in another city and through a phone call told him that his adventures would result unsafe.An examination at the Red Cross confirmed the couple had no doubt. Today at 24, Adriana is a small 4 years. This is the story of just one of the girls who go without trying to play with dolls to change the diapers of their children. One in every 100 children born in the world is the son of one of them and among the consequences is the risk of complications during childbirth, the health of your baby, without the emotional aspect, because the majority loses its couples.
“It is no secret that teen pregnancy is a social problem, because the younger couple’s relationship is very unstable.In the studies we’ve done, we determined that 54 percent of teenagers are abandoned by their partners, even from the moment he learned of the pregnancy, “says Farias Nubia, a pediatrician at the National University, working with pregnant teenagers local Rafael Uribe in Bogota, with a group of students of medicine and pediatrics. Farias says that in this environment many young women see pregnancy as a way of independence and autonomy from their families and looking for a child to feel self-sufficient.However, older adolescents, who come to the stage of young adults, choose to be mothers, having chosen a partner and create a life plan. Read the rest of this entry »
Weight gain during pregnancy
The weight of pregnancy does not come as the baby or your cravings. They are distributed in your body to accommodate baby. And over the months.
Ideal weight gain?
The number of pounds to take during pregnancy is not the same for all women. There is no ideal weight. However, there are many weight ranges. They depend on your body type and exactly your BMI (body mass index), calculated according to your height for weight.
Pregnancy Weight
Thus, experts suggest making:
- 13 to 18 kg for lean women;
- 11 to 16 kg for women of normal weight;
- 7 to 11 kg for overweight women;
- 16 to 20kg for twin pregnancies.
Not only the baby
Taking pounds is not only related to the baby. Neither the fact that you eat more. But to prepare your body for childbirth.
The weight depends on each woman. But the distribution of pounds is always more or less identical.
For example, you take 13 kg, your weight is distributed as follows:
- 3.5 kg (35%) for the baby;
- 500 g placenta
- 1 kg in the amniotic fluid;
- 1 kg in the uterus;
- 1 kg for blood;
- 500 g to 1 kg per breast;
- 2 kg to 2.5 kg of stored fat;
- 2 kg for the liquid in the tissues.
Kilos targeted at weight gain
The capture of pounds spread over months. In general, the rate of 2 to 7 kilos in the first half of pregnancy and 500 g / month until the end.
The first two months, weight gain is almost zero and generally passes unnoticed. Especially if you’re prone to nausea and therefore little appetite. The weight gain really begins during the 2nd quarter. It is at this point that your body makes reservations for breastfeeding.
Finally, you will certainly carry more weight in late pregnancy. For the baby grows so much.
Some women are also water retention in late pregnancy. This may be difficult to live as water retention gives a swollen and puffy. Rest assured, however, then those pounds are lost more easily than others.
Insufficient or overweight
You have understood, the weight gain is different for every woman (and each pregnancy). However, be careful and consult your doctor or midwife if:
- You lose or gain weight without explanation;
- Your weight is below the minimum recommended depending on your BMI;
- Conversely, you pass freely.
Know that in the case of underweight, your baby may be born with growth retardation. And you risk complications in late pregnancy (hypertension, phlebitis, etc..) If overweight.
Note: Also note that rapid weight gain and may evoke excessive gestational diabetes. This requires special supervision.
Teen Pregnancy
Why is it so common today on teen pregnancy? There are many assumptions that we can suggest, but it seems that a complex network of factors produced this, with all that implies for individuals, families and society.
If we look at it from a preventive medical point of view we can say that early initiation of intercourse and not using contraception, is an important factor. If we look, instead, from the mobilization that exist in family groups now, we would say that family breakdown, poor communication with parents, lack of education on the ability to measure risk, are other variables involved. The reality is that these adolescents become mothers before they secure their own lives, even without physical or emotional maturity. This implies, for the baby, a network of support is often not adequate.
However, there are other factors that play into this. At least in Argentina of the millennium there is a crisis of values, a very high anxiety. And pregnancy is always a gamble to life and the future. Although built with pregnancy transgression also builds a strong bond. We should not forget that teens look to their mothers and learn that the gaps can be filled with emotional relationship with the other. And this one is an assurance of affection and companionship. Someone who occupy them.
All this indicates that it is very important to address teenage pregnancy, by which means both to society of the future and each in itself.
Many times, girls are without a partner in your pregnancy. And often they are alone, unaccompanied by family affection they need. There are no longer have to daughters and become mothers. That’s why teen pregnancy is everybody, and everybody can do a lot.
These girls can make a preparation for motherhood, through inclusion in peer groups where they do body work that allows them to go through pregnancy and for better delivery. Where they can also be informed through lectures, courses, etc.. groups reflect on this process where they will live normal like the changes in the body, fears, family ties and friends, upbringing, etc..
The family of the teenager can be oriented so that it can support the teenager so he could take care of the child, not this baby becomes a brother-son. We call this “pact of escape”: The teen does not want to be a mother and gives his son his mother, who in turn did not want to be a grandmother. And professionals can help pregnant mothers develop their potential, establish ourselves as a person and as a woman, confident in its approach.