THE MENTAL HEALTH EFFECT OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY

Good morning everyone I’m here in front of you to tackle about

the mental health effect of teenage pregnancy, First let us define what is
teenage pregnancy? According to Wikipedia.com, teenage pregnancy
refers to a female adolescents becoming pregnant between age of 13-
19. A teenage pregnancy can change the course of a young mom’s life. It
put her in a place where she’s responsible not only for herself, but also
for another human being. Teenage pregnancy has effect on the mental
health, according to the Healthline.com teen moms might face a number
of mental health conditions related to childbirth and being a new mom.
Example of these conditions include first is Baby blues, the “baby blues”
are when a women experience symptoms for one to two weeks after
giving birth. These symptoms include moods wings, anxiety, sadness,
overwhelm, trouble eating and difficulty in concentrating and sleeping.
The second one is Depression being a teen mom is a risk factor
depression (a mom has a baby before 37 weeks or experiences
complication. Depression risk can increase). And lastly the postpartum
depression, postpartum depression involves more severe and significant
symptoms than baby blues. Teen moms are twice as likely to experience
postpartum depression as their counterparts. Women sometimes
mistake postpartum for the baby blues. Remember baby blues
symptoms will go away after a few weeks. Depression symptoms won’t.
According to the study of Stacy Hodgkinson, Lee Beers and Amy Lewin,
among adolescent mothers rate of depression are estimated to be
between 16% and 44%. In contrast the lifetime prevalence of major
depression among non pregnant adolescent and adult women is
between 5% and 20%. So what do we do now? First talk to your parent
(be open to them) your parents will encourage and teach you to avoid or
prevent this kind of sensitive issue, and the second one, suggest for
school seminar a series of documentary video presentation where the
students reacted to the reality of a young teenage mother, experiencing
a painful birth and facing the reality of financial difficulties and all other
disadvantages of being a teen mother.