Pregnancy makes a woman feel on top of the world. Many magnificent ideas start sailing across her mind. She begins to visualize the child-to-be-born as sleeping next to her. She gets lost in the dreams of the baby not yet born. Everything about being pregnant seems rosy if it happens at the right hour. But when we talk of teenage pregnancy, things take a different turn. Pregnancy during adolescence can be exceedingly problematic both for the baby and profoundly for the mother.

Women who conceive in their teenage are constantly worried about one thing: Is my immature physical state going to harm my baby? Their worry is not baseless. We have a scientific reason to support this. During adolescent stage the female body lacks proper pelvic development to hold and retain the fetus in the womb, Consequent upon this, the chances of having a pre-term baby or a low-birth weight baby get enhanced. Moreover, such babies may suffer from various deficiencies such as learning disabilities, poisoning, minor severe infections, and sometimes may even go through sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

It is obvious that a teenaged mother does not possess fully developed physical formation. Thus she has to face problems while delivery. The root cause of this may be an underdeveloped pelvis. If the physician detects a cephalopelvic disproportion in the early stage, it indicates a scheduled cesarean birth for sure. This is a procedure involving surgery and may also endanger the mother’s life owing to excessive blood loss.

Absence of knowledge about proper diet during pregnancy as well as prenatal care leads to a number of pregnancy complications and increased levels of health risks. The teenage mothers are not aware of the proper diet chart to follow and the precautions to follow for a healthy and safe delivery. They generally have faulty eating habits and carefree attitude toward vitamin intake. Some of them may even drink, smoke, or take illicit drugs, forgetting about the baby they are carrying.