Impact of Child Birth Related Social Norms and Customs on Rural Adolescent Mothers’ Health

Adolescent pregnancies and motherhood reveal presumption to the health of both the mother and child. Child birth related social norms and customs abolish such kind of risk in many rural areas. The primordial aim of this study is to explore the health complications regarding the social norms and customs and its outcome among adolescent mothers during child birth and postpartum period in rural areas. This study is a qualitative scrutiny in the field of sociology with descriptive analysis where the survey and case study also used for collecting the actual data from the respondents. The study is based on a survey of 150 adolescents who were become mother. A set of straightforward and fundamental interview questions was included in the agenda. Informal meetings, non-participant observation, spot observation, and the gathering of personal and family information through informal meetings were all employed to explore and gain a critical awareness of all aspects of adolescent health and its impacts in the research region. Both closed-ended and open-ended questions are on the schedule. In order to investigate the actual results of this study, focus group discussions (FGD) and in-depth interviews (II) were also used as data collection techniques. A fascinating finding is the bigger proportions suffer postpartum health problems due to follow some specific birth related social norms and customs such as gender based inequality, restriction on movement, home based delivery practices, food taboos, distortion of religious codes, patriarchal dominance, maternal altruism etc. Most of the adolescent are persecuted to those social norms and customs by their in-laws’ members. Appropriate health consciousness, proper education, familial cooperation etc. can be helpful for this problem.