Identify and describe the potential complications of Jenilyn’s abortion?

Teenage pregnancy complications include:

 For the infant
 Low birth weight

 Preterm birth
 Higher peri- and post-neonatal mortality including
sudden infant death syndrome and congenital
malformations
Poverty


 For the mother

 Anemia
 Delayed prenatal care
 Depression
 Inadequate weight gain
 Poverty – partly due to inadequate education (only
50% of adolescent mothers complete high school by
age 18 and by 35-39 years only 70% have a high
school degree)
 Pregnancy induced hypertension and eclampsia
 Second birth as a teen

Some of these problems may be more related to poor prenatal care,

nutrition and poverty than the mother’s age.
In general, first pregnancies have more complications than subsequent
pregnacies, including teenager pregnancies.

Questions for Further Discussion

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