Teen Pregnancy (Risks and Results)
Teen Pregnancy (Risks and Results 2)
Key Terms
100
More likely to experience problems with spine and pelvic bones during pregnancy and birth. Danger to baby during delivery.
What is skeletal structure not fully developed?
100
Deprived of adequate nutrition for both the mother and the baby.
What is poor eating habits?
100
The expulsion of a baby from the mother's body before week 20 of pregnancy.
What is miscarriage?
200
Effects on kidney, heart, and blood circulation. Greater risk of premature delivery, stillbirth, or miscarriage.
What is high blood pressure?
200
Greater health risks for both the mother and the baby.
What is failure to go to the doctor?
200
Loss of fetus after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
What is stillbirth?
300
Can lead to increased heart rate, blood pressure, and rapid breathing. Can lead to miscarriage/stillbirth, low birth rate, and addiction.
What is exposure to harmful substances?
300
Babies are 20 times more likely to die in their first year of birth, bleeding of the brain, and under developed lungs leading to breathing problems.
What is low birth weight?
300
Babies that are born before 37 weeks of development and weigh less than 5 pounds 8 ounces at birth.
What is premature?
400
Social, emotional, and financial risks. Struggles to survive and face challenges of life.
What is birth defects?
400
Can lead to physiological or emotional problems. The rate is 13 for teens.
What is infant mortality rate?
400
Avoiding sexual activity completely.
What is abstinence?
500
Low-grade fever, rash, and swollen lymph glands in the neck. Can lead to miscarriage/stillbirth, or serious congenital defects. If baby survives, he/she may have hearing, vision, or heart problems.
What is Rubella?
500
Affects healthy development and stresses the body even more. Affects healthy development for the baby.
What is getting pregnant again too soon?
500
A person's self-concept as a male or female linked with physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development.
What is teen sexuality?
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