Pregnancy in adolescents is a rather distressing phenomenon for the adolescent's relatives. After all, this not only complicates the child's further life path (limits it in the possibilities of obtaining education, career growth), but also jeopardizes his health. Early pregnancy in adolescents is a challenge for the whole family. What does this mean from the physiological and psychological point of view?
Physiological aspect of the question
On the one hand, pregnancy and childbirth in adolescents are much more complicated than in adults, from the physiological point of view. Due to the fact that the organism of the young woman in labor is not fully formed, childbirth more often than in adults is complicated by traumatism of the genital organs (vagina and labia ruptures), premature births occur more often. The children of the parturient teenagers have less growth, weight, often suffer from hypoxia.
The psychological side of the question
On the other hand, adolescent pregnancy adversely affects their socialization, their attitude towards young mothers fathers on the part of peers, and even relatives.
It is very important to support the child in the current situation, even if you consider it as wrong, which means not leaving young parents alone with their problem, but not taking care of the child. It is necessary to show that motherhood and the born baby is a joy even in such a difficult situation, and all the existing troubles are a matter of time and they will only contribute to the rapid maturation of the "yesterday's schoolboy".
Preventing teenage pregnancy
The problem of teenage pregnancy can be prevented by an elementary set of measures aimed at raising in the child a serious attitude to family values. It is not enough to tell a child about the existence of a number of means
It is useful to visit families where young children grow up, give children from time to time to work out, play, walk with the kids, only then the child can realize what care for the baby is, and their own willingness or unwillingness to assume such responsibility.
The first signs of pregnancy in adolescents do not differ from the signs of pregnancy of an adult woman. During the difficult from the psychological point of view of adolescence, it is necessary to closely monitor the changes in the physical condition of the teenage girl. However, it will be better not to wait for the first signs of pregnancy, but to talk about the problems of family life and motherhood before these signs are discovered.