"Extramarital pregnancy"

ABSTRACT

The nature of the problems in fifty nine cases of extramarital pregnancy studied in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecologv Mandalay General Hospital, Is described. Without exception all were Burmese. One third occurred In the teen agers; but the largest number was found in the third decade. 91 per cent were unmarried and nulliparous. Predominantly low socio-economic classes were affected. The most frequent mode of pre-esentation was amenorrhoea and abdominal lump, 57.6 per cent were seen in the first half of the pregnancy, with tendency to confuse the issue. Wide difference of attitudes and reaction of women illegitimate pregnancy exist varying between denial, distress and admission. Only 10.1 per cent were managed in hospital, the rest failed to appear once the diagnosis was made.