Script & refs for a video I'll probably never make 😂 (Patreon)

Edit: y’all said it was worth it to make, so I did a little reframe/rewrite and filmed it today.

I’m concerned people will use it as a way to also say “well we shouldn’t be attracted to women over 35 then, because they’re at a higher risk for health problems to the mother during pregnancy”

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The female body is ready for motherhood once you get your period. Right? Um, biologically, no. 

Teen moms under 20 are more likely to die during pregnancy from pre-eclampsia or the seizures it causes if left untreated, and are more likely to die from a severe infection they got from childbirth AKA “childbed fever”  and the risk gets greater for each year younger she is (Neal et al, 2016; Ganchimeg et al, 2014; Conde-Agudelo, Belizan, & Lammers, 2004).

The babies of moms under 18 are more likely to die in infancy because they are born too early or too small (Neal, Channon, & Chintsanya, 2018; Fraser, Brocket &  Ward, 1995; Kozuki et al, 2013; Scholl, Hediger, Schall, Khoo, Fischer, 1994) because even if a teen mom is eating enough, her own body is *still growing,* and will prioritize her own growth over sending nutrients to the fetus. Her reproductive tract is also not done developing, with important pieces of reproductive anatomy being too underdeveloped in adolescence to properly support a pregnancy (Hayward et al, 2011; Stevens-Simon, Beach MD, & McGregor, 2002) 

If women’s bodies can tolerate pregnancy by age 20, does that mean they’re mentally adults by then, too? Follow for my next video where I finally answer the question of when “your frontal lobe fully forms.”

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