Teenager on pill delivers in toilet
Ahmedabad: In a freak case that underlines the need for compulsory sex education in schools, a class XI girl who used an emergency contraceptive pill to prevent an unwanted pregnancy, and was at peace with herself, recently delivered a 3-kg baby in the toilet bowl. Apparently, she was plump and had no clue that she was pregnant.
Doctors at VS Hospital here were shocked when the girl, who was admitted to the hospital recently after she delivered the child in the toilet of her home, told them that she never realised she was pregnant.
She told the doctors that she thought she had taken care of the possibility of being pregnant by popping an emergency contraceptive pill within three days of having unprotected sex with a boy she had a fling with. ''The girl said she took an emergency contraceptive pill and forgot all about it. It may be a possibility that she took the pill later than the advised time period. It may also be that she may have indulged in sex even after having the pill thinking it will offer her protection later as well,'' said attending gynaecologist Rajal Thaker.
Thaker, who has taken sex education lectures with over 3,500 girls in Ahmedabad, apart from imparting sex education to visuallychallenged girls from all over the state, concedes that this case lays strong emphasis on the urgent need of re-introducing compulsory sex education to school children which was recently scrapped by the state government following protests from certain sections.
''The case also shows the complete breakdown on communication in nuclear families where the parents, who are also educated, did not notice that the girl was pregnant for the whole of nine months,'' says Thaker.
Doctors at VS Hospital here were shocked when the girl, who was admitted to the hospital recently after she delivered the child in the toilet of her home, told them that she never realised she was pregnant.
She told the doctors that she thought she had taken care of the possibility of being pregnant by popping an emergency contraceptive pill within three days of having unprotected sex with a boy she had a fling with. ''The girl said she took an emergency contraceptive pill and forgot all about it. It may be a possibility that she took the pill later than the advised time period. It may also be that she may have indulged in sex even after having the pill thinking it will offer her protection later as well,'' said attending gynaecologist Rajal Thaker.
Thaker, who has taken sex education lectures with over 3,500 girls in Ahmedabad, apart from imparting sex education to visuallychallenged girls from all over the state, concedes that this case lays strong emphasis on the urgent need of re-introducing compulsory sex education to school children which was recently scrapped by the state government following protests from certain sections.
''The case also shows the complete breakdown on communication in nuclear families where the parents, who are also educated, did not notice that the girl was pregnant for the whole of nine months,'' says Thaker.
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