Teen C-sections

SmilingBluEyes · Mar 31, 2003

No one need get all defensive here GA. NOT ONE NURSE HERE said teen moms are inherently BAD moms. The medical facts are what they are, agewise. Teens, especially under age 16, DO stand substantial risk of CPD and resulting csection delivery. They also run the greater risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension. As do moms over 35. These are just facts. They have NOTHING whatever to do with the type of parent a person will automatically make soley due to age no more than would the type of birth she experiences. Lighten up, please---- and don't think anyone here judges teen moms based on age alone. I have seen great teen moms and LOUSY older ones,and vice versa. This was really NOT where this thread was intended to go. Take it easy now.

GAstudent · Mar 31, 2003

I wish that people here read every post. I did say that I did not intend to make it sound that way. I was not getting mad and I know that facts are facts. I was taking it easy. Seems that people here also jump the guns on everything that is said and dont read all post.

SmilingBluEyes · Mar 31, 2003

Ok whatever. Peace out, GA. I don't have time to fight with you. No harm intended here, by anyone.

keeper · Apr 1, 2003

I'm wondering if a lot of it is due to the typical diet of a teenager. It's a generalization, but most teens have pretty poor diets, and some complications (actually, I think a lot) can be averted with proper nutrition.

I live near a polygamous community and have a friend who works as a post partum aide at their midwife run birth center. The average marriage age of these girls is 16, but the rumor is that it's sometimes as young as 13 or 14. :eek: I know some women transfer to the larger city for complications, but their transfer rate is actually quite small. It makes me wonder about immature pelvic structures when so many teens there are having babies without the problem of CPD.

mark_LD_RN · Apr 2, 2003

Keeper you know it all depends on the pelvic structure and the size of the baby. I recently had a 10yr old pt that actually delivered lady partslly. I kinda think it would have been better if she had a c/s. she had 4th degee extension and numerous laceration and swelling you would not believe. all to deliver a 6 Lb baby:(

ShandyLynnRN, BSN, RN · Apr 2, 2003

OMG! Is ten even considered a teenager?? TEN! Sheesh! Please tell me that poor girl gave that baby up for adoption. I cannot even imagine having a baby at 10. I wasn't even *able* to have children until I was 14. God, ten. That's so sad.

OBNURSEHEATHER · Apr 2, 2003

Originally posted by lindaisanurse
...and the fact that many teenage moms are VERY unprepared for labor and delivery - they get their instruction from soaps and TLC - not willing to notice the difference between TV and life.

Uh oh.... I feel a B-I-N-G-O coming on.

OBNURSEHEATHER · Apr 2, 2003

This was your first post....

Originally posted by GAstudent
I want to say that when I was 16 I became pregnant. I was in the 10th grade. I was in labor for 20 hours and had been given the option of a c section because my son was turned on his side. I choose the other option of turning and pushing in order to get him to turn. Finally he turned the right way. By 19 hours he was not coming (not to mention the the epidural was wore off. I am only 5'3 and 120 lbs carrying an 8lb 11oz 22 inch child.) My doctor said lets push a little more. I was like what can it hurt. She later said I really had no option put to continue pushing. Finally an hour later he came.

I do agree that it can be that the pt is immature and has little support. I got married at 17 and had my son. I got pregnant again at 17 (four months after my first son was born) and delivered him easily. I had support from family friends, husband, and school.

All I really want to say is please nurses give the teens as much comfort as you can. Let them know they are ok. and let them know the differences in after affects of c sections and vag. deliveries. But please please please don't look at all of them as just sex machines who can't keep their pants on and that they wont take care of the child. I am now 19 and a mother of two boys ages 1 1/2 and 2 1/2. My 2 1/2 can count to 25 in English and 15 in Spanish. He can say half of his ABC's (he has not yet mastered them all). He says please and thank you. We are working on Yes Mam and No Mam and Yes Sir and No Sir. He is not perfect he has bad habits also. One day he heard me call someone Stupid (road rage) and he started calling people Stupid. I think he has quit now. But I have goals like everyone else. My husband and I are building a house, I am a CNA, and I attend school for my RN.

Just don't look at all teens as bad parents. PLEase. There are woman and men in their 20's , 30's and 40's who can't raise children because they just don't want to. They just want to have sex. I think that age does not make a mother or father, what makes a mother is love. Included in Love is goals, ambitions, hopes, dreams, laughter, caring,, etc...

Then you said this.....

Some people look at me when I am shopping with my kids and give me mean looks

Hmmmm.... do you think the looks people give you and the constant stigma associated with teen motherhood are what taints your view of every thought and sentence here, and makes YOU jump to conclusions???? NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON here alluded to the things you think we did. The conversation wasn't even heaed in that direction. We were talking about the impact of physical and emotional immaturity on the labor process. And because of your sensitivity, YOU jumped to conclusions.

I too was a teen mother, and I've learned to let it go. To not be pissed and pick every little statement apart as a personal attack. I have way more important ways to channel my energy, like raising my child. I know what kind of parent I am, and so does he, and that's all that matters.

Heather

GAstudent · Apr 2, 2003

Heather,:

Did you read where I said "I am sorry if I sounded like I thought nurses did look at teens that way. I just wanted to make sure. " and I also said "Sorry to have sounded the wrong way. Thanks for not looking at all teens that way. " I also said that I have not seen a post on this yet and wanted the nurses in this post to read it. I just wanted to say it because I thought this was a good time to say it.

SmilingBluEyes · Apr 3, 2003

Originally posted by mark_LD_RN
Keeper you know it all depends on the pelvic structure and the size of the baby. I recently had a 10yr old pt that actually delivered lady partslly. I kinda think it would have been better if she had a c/s. she had 4th degee extension and numerous laceration and swelling you would not believe. all to deliver a 6 Lb baby:(

10???? in the name of all that is holy, I have to wonder WHY a 10 year old is in such a traumatic and horrendous situation....what doctor would put her thru this? Mark this is horrifying to me as a nurse and a mom of a 10 year old boy. Good lord what is this country coming to?

SmilingBluEyes · Apr 3, 2003

Originally posted by OBNURSEHEATHER
Uh oh.... I feel a B-I-N-G-O coming on.

B I N G O!!!!!!!!!!!!

OBNURSEHEATHER · Apr 3, 2003

Originally posted by GAstudent
Heather,:

Did you read where I said "I am sorry if I sounded like I thought nurses did look at teens that way. I just wanted to make sure. " and I also said "Sorry to have sounded the wrong way. Thanks for not looking at all teens that way. " I also said that I have not seen a post on this yet and wanted the nurses in this post to read it. I just wanted to say it because I thought this was a good time to say it.

Yup. Only you said it all after you blew up and accused us of saying things we didn't. I understand the personal feelings you have about this, but it isn't always you against the world. If you would have just read what we were saying clearly and without your own prejudice, you would have seen that.

Take care, and enjoy your babies.

Heather