Child motherhood: the incapability remains
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Correspondence Child motherhood: the incapability remains
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Evrim Kiray Bas, Ali Bulbul, Sinan Uslu, Vedat Bas, Umut Zubarioglu Sisli Etfal Children's Hospital, Kazım Orbay Street, number:1 Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey (Bas EK, Bulbul A, Uslu S, Zubarioglu U); Istanbul Arel University (Bas V) Email: [email protected]
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Correspondence
he period of adolescence, defined by the World Health Organization as the period between 10 and 19 years of age, is the transition from childhood to adulthood through a number of biological, psychological, and social changes. It has been reported that one in five individuals is an adolescent, and 85% of adolescents live in developing countries.[1] Pregnancies that occur in this period, when the individual has yet to complete the maturation process in both biological and psychological senses, are risky for both the mother and child. In Turkey, 21.6% of the young population are adolescents,[2] and 5%-12% of pregnancies occur during the adolescent period.[3,4] We performed a study to investigate postnatal care and nutritional status of infants born to adolescent mothers and contraception methods used by adolescent mothers during postnatal period in our country. The data were collected from 241 adolescent mothers. Health care and nutritional status of the babies and contraception methods used by adolescent mothers were obtained at 24 and 36 months of the postnatal period with interviews conducted by face-to-face interview method. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. There were a total of 3427 deliveries at our hospital in 2011, of which 7.9% (n=271) were adolescent deliveries. After the consent obtained, 241 adolescent mothers and their infants were included in the study. Interviews indicated that 38.2% of the mothers (n=92) were unable to care for their babies by themselves (incapable maternity), and 15.4% (n=37) missed vaccination and growth and development control visits for their babies. The rate of formulafeeding was 37.8% (n=91), the rate of exclusively breastfeeding for the first 6 months was 13.7% (n=33). World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6 months. But this rate was low among the babies of adolescent
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