This guide, developed by Save the Children, helps adolescent girls to understand pregnancy and childbirth.
This book was developed to help young married girls with the next important years of your life, to understand pregnancy and childbirth, and to do their best to take care of themselves and their baby. We asked many adolescent girls that have already given birth to help us develop this guide specifically for girls. We also asked husbands and mothers in law from villages to learn of their experiences, feelings and opinions about marriage, pregnancy, childbirth and taking care of a new baby.
This guide is divided up into chapters. Each chapter will focus on the changes in a pregnant girl’s body before, during and after your pregnancy. The chapters have a space for pregnant adolescents to write down their thoughts and feelings during this time in their life. This is also a workbook to keep and share with others.