[Neonatal effects of adolescent pregnancy]

Several maternal and fetal parameters (maternal age and prepregnancy weight, pathology and pregnancy control, parity, DIPS II amniotic fluid, modality of delivery, weeks of gestation, fetal presentation, postpartum hemorrhage and laceration, placental weight and umbilical cord, weight, length, sex and cephalic circumference of the neonate. Apgar score, mobimortality and forlorness of the newborn) were compared between a group of 171 adolescents mothers (aged 13 to 19 years) and another group of 108 adults mothers (aged 20 to 37 years) with similar socieconomics status. The adolescents mothers had worse pregnancy control (2.9 +/- 2 medical examination vs 4.7 +/- 2.3); (p less than 0.05), and greater prematurity (11.8% vs 5.3%), and smaller newborn weight (3.114.9 +/- 543.1 g vs 3.315.3 +/- 490.7 g); (p less than 0.05), and cephalic circumference (34.1 +/- 1 cm vs 35 +/- 1.9 cm); (p less than 0.05), and greater morbility (11.7% vs 2.8%); (p less than 0.05), and forlonness (8.8% vs 1.9%); (p less than 0.05) of neonate.