The Top Five Dangers For Babies Born to Teen Mothers

Family/ Parenting - Pregnancy

By: IzzyDuncan     19-Jan-2011

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Introduction:

Teen pregnancy rates were high in 2010 and 2011 rates appear to be on the same track. The infants are the ones who suffer the consequences, even if the mother is able to manage the difficult task of growing up while caring for a baby. While television shows such as MTV's "16 and Pregnant" illustrate the problems teen face, the true impact on the baby and children is not explored in the short bio media pieces.

Low-Birth Weight

The Mayo Clinic reports that babies born to teens have a greater chance of weighing in at low weights. Babies without the necessary weight at birth, struggle to survive and grow. Brain cells develop slowly and children frequently exhibit learning skills later at school from the damage done at birth. Some extremely low-weight children have development damage that includes hearing loss and the inability to judge distances and do abstract reasoning.

Premature Birth

Premature birth is also a problem for teens with undeveloped reproductive systems. Early birth problems include many of the same defects as low-birth weight, including hearing loss and mental damage.

Learning Disabilities

Babies born to teen mothers are more likely to have cognitive disorders that will hinder their intellectual development, according to the Mayo Clinic. Teen mothers who continue in school or work to earn money for the new family have less time to spend with their babies. This situation reduces the chance that children will receive the necessary stimulation to enhance brain function. Children of teen mothers regularly test in the lowest intelligence student groups when they begin school.

Baby Injuries

Whether the teen mother purposely harms the infant or the injury is judged "harm by omission," babies of teen mothers have higher incidents of death and injury than babies born to older mothers. Teen parents fail to have the maturity and experience to understand how to react in emergency situations. Babies born to teen parents also have a higher chance of dying due to child abuse, according to studies done in the United States by the National Institutes of Health. The March of Dimes reports babies born to young mothers are more than twice as likely to die as infants compared with the infants of older mothers.

STD Transmission

Babies born to teen mothers have a higher chance of contracting sexually transmitted diseases from the mother, including HIV, syphilis and chlamydia. Many times the mother is unaware that she has the disease. Harm to babies born with the disease include blindness, death, eye infections, weakened lung function and pneumonia.





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