Maternal and Child Care: Complications of Adolescent Labor, Birth, and the Postpartum Period: Postpartum hemorrhage:

1.) More prone than average woman because?

2.) Adolescents may also have more frequent or deeper perineal
and cervical lacerations than older women because?

Question

Complications of Adolescent Labor, Birth, and the Postpartum Period: Postpartum hemorrhage:

1.) More prone than average woman because?

2.) Adolescents may also have more frequent or deeper perineal
and cervical lacerations than older women because?

James Marion Endrina Entice · Accepted Answer

1.) their uterus becomes overdistended by pregnancy.

An overdistended uterus does not contract as readily as a
normal distended uterus in the postpartum period = bleeding

2.) of the size of the infant.

Complications of Adolescent Labor, Birth, and the Postpartum Period: Postpartum hemorrhage: 1.) More prone than average woman because? 2.) Adolescents may also have more frequent or deeper perineal and cervical lacerations than older women because?