1. Teen Pregnancy
Teenage pregnancy is defined as an under-aged girl becoming pregnant

2. Health risks to the Baby
Teenage mothers are less likely to gain weight during their pregnancy, which can lead to low birth weight and complications.

3. Complications of Low Birth Weight Babies
Organs that are not fully developed
bleeding in the brain
respiratory distress syndrome
intestinal problems

4. Teen mothers tend to have poor eating habits
Teens are less likely to take recommended daily multivitamins to maintain a good nutrition diet
More likely to smoke, drink, or take drugs during pregnancy

5. Teenage mothers are less likely to seek regular prenatal care

6. Need for Pre-natal care
Essential for monitoring the growth of the fetus
Keeping the mother's weight in check
Advising the mother on nutrition and how she should take care of herself to ensure a healthy pregnancy
According to the American Medical Association, babies born to women who do not have regular prenatal care are 4 times more likely to die before the age of 1 year.

7. Children Born to Teen Mothers
more likely to experience social, emotional, and other problems
less likely to receive proper nutrition, health care, and cognitive and social stimulation
may have an underdeveloped intellect and attain lower academic achievement.

8. at greater risk for abuse and neglect.
Boys born to teenage mothers are 13% more likely to be incarcerated.
Girls born to teenage mothers are 22% more likely to become teenage mothers.

9. Teens Emotional reactions when pregnant
Not Wanting the Baby
I. ABORTION- removal or expulsion of an embryo
or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused
by its death.
II. ADOPTION- legal act of permanently placing a
child with parents other than the birth parents
III. Killing the baby, if no one knows she is pregnant

10. Other reactions view the creation of a child as an achievement
keep a child to please another family member
want a baby to have someone to love
depression is also common among pregnant teens
may become overwhelmed by guilt, anxiety, and fears about the future

11. Youngest Mother in the World
Peruvian five-year-old Lina Medina, accompanied by her 11-month-old-son Gerardo, and Doctor Lozada who attended her son's birth, are shown in this 1940 file photo taken in Lima's hospital.
Medina was born on September 27, 1933 in the small village of Paurange.  She was only 5 years 8 months old at the birth of her child on Mother's Day, May 14, 1939.
Born at full term at Lima's maternity clinic, her child was taken through a caesarian operation (Dr. Lozada and Busalleu, operators, Dr. Colretta, anesthesiologist). The child (boy), weighing 2,700 grams, was well formed and in good health.

12. Sincere, 11 months old
His mom is 17, didn’t finish school lives in a house with 6 other girls with babies, who are under aged.
Papi, 3months old his mom is 16, didn’t finish school, lives in a house with 6 other girls with babies too.