Teenage pregnancy is considered a public health issue with high social impact. Mexico has the highest rates, ranking first place in the world. The implications on the lives of these women are diverse, affecting different areas of life.Objective: to learn about the experience of being an adolescent mother of a high-risk newborn.Methods: qualitative, descriptive, exploratory single case study with a categorical and phenomenological analytical strategy. The participant is a 20 year-old woman who became mother of twins at 17 years of age. A semi-structured interview was conducted and informed consent was obtained. The analysis consisted of the transcription and incoding of information. According to this the following analytical categories were obtained: perception of adolescent maternity, personal, familiar and social consequences, emotional sequelae, parenting and resignification of life. Conclusion:Adolescent mothers experience significant personal, social and family consequences upon motherhood. Further investigation is necessary regarding personal experiences in this population, in order to delve deeper into this problem. This will contribute to identifying modifications, meanings and guidelines that allow these mothers adapt to the conditions they are subjected to. Furthermore, this acknowledges the importance of support networks (in this case the family) for the restructuring and functioning of socioemotional development of the mother as well as her child.

The infant of a mother with gestational diabetes (IDM) is a newborn with high neurological risk and can not ensure an evolutionary pattern in his neurodevelopment; therefore, he must be monitored during the first years of life. The objective of this research is to describe the neurodevelopment of infants of mothers with gestational diabetes at 1 -6 years of age born in the National Institute of Perinatology, through a retrospective longitudinal study. The sample consisted of 46 participants; 17 boys and 29 girls, children of mothers with gestational diabetes born between 2000 and 2010, who were assessed with the Bayley II Development Scale at the first and second years of life and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale 4 th ed. at the 3 rd , 4.5 and 6 years. The results show that IDM have a slight delay in the Psychomotor Developmental Index in the first two years that does not affect scores in the Intellectual Quotient at 3-6 years, obtaining scores within the normal range.

Introduction: A high risk birth implies more responsibilities for parents, who suffer negative effects in their global quality of life in a direct and indirect form, presenting disorders of the emotional sphere, amongst others. Perceiving their child as vulnerable, weak and sickly generates emotional sequelae in the parents that affect the child's development.Emotions are fundamental aspects of human relationships and are invariably involved in parenting as the first emotional links between parents and children are established. Parenting involves emotions related to the difficult task adults face since the beginning of their child's life due to birth conditions. This may result in short and long-term altered emotional states that influence attitudes towards parenting and impact the high risk newborn's development.In Mexico, little has been inquired about parent emotions concerning parenting in this population.Objective: This study has the objective of validating an emotional scale in parents concerning parenting of high risk newborns. Materials and Methods: Non-experimental, exploratory, cross-sectional study with intentional non-probabilistic sampling of an only sample. 710 parents of children with a high risk birth who attended the pediatric follow-up at the National Institute of Perinatology (INper) participated. 73.2% (520) were women and 26.8% (190) men, with µ= 35.5 years (S.D.= 8.15) of age.Results: An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted using the method of main components with orthogonal rotation. The analysis yielded a Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin index that revealed a factorizable matrix (KMO = 0.829), as well as a significant Bartlett's test of sphericity (p < .000), which allowed for an adequate factor analysis. The instrument included 14 items distributed in three factors: Guilt and fear, Joy and Happiness and States associated with negative emotions towards parenting that account for 54.16% of total variance, with a global Cronbach alpha of 0.81. Conclusion:The present work emphasizes the relevance of having a scale that enables learning about emotions that parents experience when parenting a high risk child. It is concluded that the instrument is valid and reliable for the Mexican population. It is suggested to use it in clinical practice and in future studies side by side with other scales that contain variables or constructs related to parental emotions in their factorial structure.