This document discusses early pregnancy among teenagers. It notes that early pregnancy can have health risks for teenage girls and make it difficult for them to complete their education or support a child. The document outlines various signs of early pregnancy, including missed periods, food aversions, and mood swings. It also lists potential causes like lack of sexual education and pressures from peers or older romantic partners. The disadvantages include health risks for babies, financial problems, depression, and inability to finish school. Early pregnancy can also lead to miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies.

2. Table of content
 Early pregnancy
 Advantages of early pregnancy
 Disadvantages of early pregnancy
 Cause and effect of early pregnancy
 Top 11 signs of early pregnancy
 Factors of early pregnancy
 Problems of early pregnancy

3. INTRODUCTION
Early Pregnancy is serious problem for teenagers.
Teenagers who are pregnant cannot usually support the child on
their own. Early Pregnancy can have various possible reasons.
Early Pregnancy or teenage Pregnancy is dangerous to teenage
girl’s health because it may cause cervical cancer, aids, and
eventually death. It is often associated with an increased rate of
delinquent behaviors including alcohol and substance abuse. to
begin with majority of them belong to the low income group. To
prevent this dilemma, there are some preventions that can
reduce the increasing rate of Teenage Pregnancy. Preventing
teen pregnancies requires a concerted effort on the part of
parents, school, and government.

4. Advantages
Advantages: These teenagers use parenting as away to build stable adult live and to
find jobs that allow them to support and care for their babies.
•Getting the pleasure soon in life
•Responsibility of becoming a mother
•Sense of being a parent
•Ability to relate to the baby and the better way
•Restoring family lines better
•Abstinent from wrong paths
•Quick recovery
•Healthy baby
•Improvement in the quality of the life
•Welfare schemes

5. DISADVANTAGES
Disadvantages: Teen pregnancy are statistically clear. More
than 50 percent of teen mothers never finish high school of
those who do graduate from high school only 2 percent
learn a college degree by age.
•Scorn of the society
•Inability to bear
•Complicated health of the babies
•Single parent
•Improper education
•No proper job
•Depression and addiction
•Sacrifice of the personal life
•Lack of maturity
•Financial problem

6. Cause and effects of early
pregnancy
Early pregnancy- is one of the problems in today’s society
teenagers today don’t know how big responsibility to raise a child when
they are young too. Becoming a parent is a big responsibility that should
give priority. But how can teenagers can handle this big responsibilities is
she was too young too? To raise a child involves a lot of patient
sacrifices which lot teens doesn’t have. The risk of pregnancy among
teenagers is largely increasing. Some teenagers who get pregnant early
may experience anxiety, depression and other emotional problem. We
know that teenagers ages of 15-19 are still young so emotion and other
feelings of being teenagers might occur. Some of the causes of early
pregnancy among teenager are lack of education especially sexual
education, poverty, undergraduate, or problem with this family.

7. Top 11 signs of early
pregnancy
 Food aversions- if you’re newly pregnant , its not
uncommon to feel repelled by the smell of a bologna
sandwich or a cup of coffee, and for certain aromas to
trigger your gag reflex.
 Mood swings- during pregnancy, partly because of
hormonal changes that affect neurotransmitters(chemical
messengers in the brain).
 Abdominal bloating- hormonal changes in early pregnancy
may leave you feeling bloated, similar to the feeling some
woman have just before their period.

8. Top 11 signs of early
pregnancy
 Frequent urination- shortly after you become pregnant, hormonal
changes prompt a chain of events that raise the rate of blood flow
through your kidneys.
 Fatigue- feeling tired all of a sudden? No, make that exhausted. No
one knows for sure what causes early pregnancy fatigue, but its
possible that rapidly increasing levels of the hormone progesterone are
contributing to your sleepiness.
 Sore breasts- one common pregnancy symptoms is sensitive, swollen
breasts caused by rising levels of hormones. The soreness and swelling
may feel like an exaggerated version of how your breasts feel before
your period.
 Light bleeding or spotting- it seems counterintuitive if you’re trying to
get pregnant. The last thing you want see is any spotting or vaginal
bleeding .

9. Top 11signs of early
pregnancy
 Nausea- for some women, morning sickness doesn’t hit until about a
month or two after conception., though for others it may start as early as two
weeks. And not just in the morning, either:
 A missed period- if you’re usually pretty regular and your period doesn’t
arrive on time, you may decided to do a pregnancy test before you notice
any of the above symptoms.
 High basal body temperature- if you’re been charting your basal body
temperature and you see that your temperature has stayed elevated for
more than two weeks.
 Positive home pregnancy test- in spite of what you might read on the box.
Many home pregnancy test are not sensitive enough to reliably detect
pregnancy until about a week after a missed period.

10. Factors of early
pregnancy
1) Lack of parental guidance-most people evade their
children from talking about sex.
2) Adolescent sexual behavior- among the
adolescents, peer pressure is a major factors that
encourages the teenage boys/girls to indulge in
sexual activities.
3) Inadequate knowledge about safe sex- most
adolescents are aware of safe sex.
4) Exploitation by older men- this is another major factor
that contribute to pregnancy among the teenagers.
5) Socio economics factor- Teenage girls who belong
to the poor families are more likely to become
pregnant.

11. Problems of Early
pregnancy
-Are most likely to be due to pregnancy
not attaching or forming properly. Usually
if a pregnancy is not going to be viable it
will miscarry. Mostly, that will happen
very early in the pregnancy often before
the mother even knows that she is
pregnant. Most miscarriage and ectopic
pregnancies happen in the early weeks
of a pregnancy.

12. Problems of Early
pregnancy
 Bleeding In early pregnancy
 Miscarriage
 Treating miscarriage
 Ectopic pregnancy

13. PRESENTED BY :
Norkaifa Demalon
kyrine Inting
Kerine Mad
EARLY PREGNANCY