Teenage Pregnancy

• Overviews
• Especially for Teens: Having a Baby (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists)
• Having a Healthy Pregnancy (Nemours Foundation)

• Anatomy/Physiology
• Female Reproductive System (Nemours Foundation)

• Diagnosis/Symptoms
• JAMA Patient Page: How Do I Know If I'm Pregnant? (American Medical Association)

• Health Check Tools
• Test Your Knowledge (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy)

• Prevention/Screening
• Birth Control: What You Need to Know (Nemours Foundation)
• Ten Tips for Parents to Help Their Children Avoid Teen Pregnancy (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy)
• Thinking about the Right-Now: What Teens Want Other Teens to Know about Preventing Pregnancy (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy)

• Coping
• Pregnancy in Your Teens (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• When Your Teen Is Having a Baby (Nemours Foundation)

• Related Issues
• Can a Girl Get Pregnant If She Has Sex during Her Period? (Nemours Foundation)
• Not Just Another Single Issue: Teen Pregnancy Prevention’s Linked to Other Critical Social Issues (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy) - Links to PDF File
• Pregnancy Choices: Raising the Baby, Adoption and Abortion (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists)
• Talking Back: Ten Things Teens Want Parents to Know about Teen Pregnancy (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy)
  Also available in: Spanish
• Teen Pregnancy - So What? (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy)

• Research
• American Opinion on Teen Pregnancy and Related Issues 2003 (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy) - Links to PDF File
• Dads Make a Difference (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy)

• Directories
• ACOG's Physician Directory (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists)

• Organizations
• Adolescent Wellness and Reproductive Education Foundation
• March of Dimes (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
  Also available in: Spanish
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

• Newsletters/Print Publications
• Adolescent Prenatal Care (National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health)

• Statistics
• FASTATS: Teen Births (National Center for Health Statistics)
• PeriStats (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation) - Perinatal health in the United States
• Sharing Medication among Teenage Girls: Potential Danger to Unplanned/Undiagnosed Pregnancies (National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities) - Links to PDF File
• Teen Birth Rate Continues to Decline; African-American Teens Show Sharpest Drop (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Teen Birth Rate Down, Youth Less Likely to Be Involved in Violent Crimes, Kids More Likely to Be Overweight (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
• Teenage Pregnancy (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
  Also available in: Spanish