Impact of Adolescent Pregnancy on Neonate Outcome

Background & Objective: Adolescent pregnancy defines as "The pregnancy of a female aged 10-19 years”. This is considered to be her age when she gave birth to her first child. The object of the study is to find out the association between the adolescent pregnancy and the normal age pregnancy with in relation to the neonate outcome. Materials & Methods: Descriptive observational, Case-control Study was conducted between 18th January 2021 to 29th September 2021. Researchers studied all 654 pregnant patients at Kirkuk's Azady Teaching Hospital, from admission through labor and delivery, after they were randomly selected. Results: Adolescent mom had a higher incidence rate than adult mom regarding Low birth weight (13.3% vs 8.7 %), Fetal distress (30.7% vs.25.2% ) ,and the rate of Respiratory distress (10.6% vs.10.1%), Asphyxia (3.7vs. 2.8%), Preterm(17.0% vs 6.0%), Congenital anomalies(4.1% vs1.4%), Stillbirth (5.5% vs 0.9%), Early neonate death(3.2% vs 1.8%), Admission to NICU (42.2% vs 27.5%). Conclusion: This study clearly demonstrates that, in comparison to adult mothers, teenage moms were more susceptible to difficulties during labor and delivery. Adolescent pregnancy rates may be decreased by using specific techniques.