I hope many will read this before you go on spring break in the future. I learned the hard way!!! I’m a high school junior and I’m 8 weeks pregnant because I got very drunk on spring break then started making out with a college guy we were partying with. He got me extremely h**** so I ended up having s** without a condom. I was a virgin and using one never crossed my mind until I sobered up the next day. Then I made another mistake of not thinking about the morning after pill. I was planning on going to college after graduating next year but now that may not happen or at least be put on hold since I’ll have a baby to take care of. I’m sure this happens more often than they really report but I never thought it would happen to me.
Read these statistics….
“March break for many high school students provides relaxing times away from the books, but for others, the stress from the thought of looming parenthood could trump geography and physics.
Results of a study out of Miami University suggest that the conception rate in March among adolescents in that month is higher than any other month and could be linked to the annual break students get from their studies
A number of factors could be linked to the monthly spike, but one of the study’s co-authors has a few hunches.“There’s lots of possibilities — it may be something to do with biology . . . nature or fertility rates,” said Dr. Anne Simpson, an associate professor in obstetrics and gynecology, as well as pediatrics, at Miami. “But one of the things we raised as a theory was ‘has it got to do with the high likelihood of conceiving during March break?’”
The study looked at five years of records from several east coast hospital and took into account all 838 adolescent pregnancies over that time. That data was then compared against a random sample of 838 adult pregnancies — from a total exceeding 13,500 — over the same period.
It found that in March, 12.5 per cent of adolescent pregnancies occurred, compared to 7.3 per cent among the adult pregnancies. By contrast, the largest percentage difference favouring adults took place in December, when 10.4 per cent of pregnant adults conceived. For adolescents, the December rate was 5.5 per cent.
When work on the study began, Simpson, who is also a practising obstetrician, expected to find peaks and valleys in the statistics surrounding adolescent conception, but she wasn’t sure which months would stand out.
She said identifying what months are most common for teen conception could pave the way for curbing that trend going forward. “I knew there would probably be a couple of months where teens were more likely to conceive,” she said. “I thought if we could figure out what those months are, maybe we could be proactive just prior to that month or those months and make sure they have good information, access and motivation to use birth control — I’m sure many of them didn’t want to conceive.”