Teen pregnancy

Although pregnancy and bringing a child into the world is the desire of most women and a unique and unrepeatable experience, there are cases in which said pregnancy is not desired and becomes a real torture for said woman. This unfortunately happens very frequently in teenage pregnancy. Today there are many teenagers who get pregnant without really wanting it, turning the 9 months of gestation into a real path of thorns both for the young woman herself and those closest to her.

TEENAGE PREGNANCY

A pregnancy is adolescent when it occurs between the ages of 10 and 19. During this stage of life, pregnancy is really complicated and difficult because the young woman undergoes great and important changes both physically and emotionally. At that age, the young woman lacks maturation, something that weighs her down in an important way when it comes to coping with the gestation period.

It is quite normal for a teenager to be able to carry something as important as a pregnancy without any problem since she can feel quite overwhelmed by everything that comes with giving birth to a baby. It is recommended that you allow yourself to be helped both by your closest environment and by professionals who make the nine months of pregnancy more bearable.

RISK FACTOR’S

There are a number of important risk factors for teenage pregnancy.

• • The first risk factor has to do with the precociousness of young women when it comes to having sex. It has been shown that adolescents who start sex at an early age such as 13 or 14 have a fairly high percentage of becoming pregnant.

• • Another risk factor to be aware of is the worrying lack of sex education for today’s youth. Many of the unwanted pregnancies could have been prevented if adolescent girls had known much more about birth control.

• • Excessive consumption of alcohol and other substances that are harmful to the body is another risk factor in relation to teenage pregnancy.

• The lack of economic resources coupled with a poor education means that the percentage of pregnancy in young women is much higher.

SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS

A teenage pregnancy is not well seen in today’s society and the young woman may feel rejected both by her family and by the social environment. This supposes a series of problems at an emotional and psychological level that makes quite a dent in the adolescent. This rejection makes many young women feel totally overwhelmed in all aspects and end up deciding not to have the baby.

In addition to this, there may be a dangerous approach to the world of drugs causing serious problems at the level of anxiety or depression . Finding yourself in such an adverse situation makes the pregnancy a real burden and you decide to make a decision as important as abortion.

The pregnancy is something that should be wonderful and unique for any woman, however as you have been shown in this article in the case of adolescent girls is something that is often a real nightmare. In most cases, the lack of information of a sexual nature causes many young women to get pregnant without trying or looking for it. In the case of pregnancy, it is very important that these adolescents have the support of their family since otherwise they may be totally overwhelmed by such a situation, having a negative impact both physically and mentally.