Teen pregnancy for the eighteen to nineteen year old age group shows an increase to eighteen percent in the number of pregnant smokers.
Smoking during pregnancy has been proven to result in increased complications, premature birth, and even stillbirth.
Pregnant teenagers have also been shown to seek out and receive less prenatal care. In 2002, nearly seven percent of teenage mothers between the ages of fifteen to nineteen have received prenatal care that is considered late. Many have received none at all.
For a young mother, teen pregnancy presents a greater risk of suffering from high blood pressure and anemia, when compared to women aged twenty and above. Pregnant teenagers fifteen years of age and below are at even greater risk. Not only from experiencing the above complications, but they also may be more likely to die from pregnancy related complications when compared to mothers aged between twenty and twenty- four.
Another risk that the pregnant teenager could be facing is that of possibly contacting a sexually transmitted disease.
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