Adolescent Pregnancies: Maternal and Fetal Outcomes

Adolescent pregnancy has longly been a problem with adverse obstetric and neonatal outcomes being influenced by biological immaturity, unintended pregnancy, inadequate perinatal care, poor maternal nutrition, and stress. Considering limited number of study regarding the maternal and perinatal outcome of adolescent pregnancies in Turkey, we aimed to review obstetric and neonatal outcomes in adolescent pregnant women in our hospital. We compared 68 adolescence women with 409 records of women with the age higher than 19 years. Our data showed that adolescent pregnancies were at increased risk of preterm delivery. We also observed that adolescent pregnancy was associated with lower risks of cesarean delivery, operative vaginal delivery and macrosomia.