Early and unintended pregnancies rife in Lesotho: node3-year-olds among those bearing children

QUTHING, Lesotho—More teenage girls are admitted to the maternity ward of Quthing government hospital than women of childbearing age. “We see them mostly because we admit them at the waiting mothers’ shelters,” says Ntebaleng Stoffel, a nurse midwife on the ward. “Since they are prone to risk, they have to deliver at hospital, not any other health facility.” Since they are prone to risk, they have to deliver at hospital.