Young American women between the ages 15 to 19 who got pregnant went up by 3.4 percent, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. It is the second straight year that teen birthrates rose in 2006 to 2007, reversing 14 consecutive years of declines.

In 2005 to 2006, teen birthrates grew 1.4 percent.

More teenage Britons are becoming pregnant, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The number of Briton youths under 18 who became pregnant rose to 41.9 for every 1,000 female in 2007 from 40.9 in 2006, the first hike since 2002. The worsening situation of rising teenage pregnancies in the United Kingdom is highlighted by the birth in early February of a daughter to a 15-year old girl and a 13-year old boy from Hailsham, East Sussex.

A 13-year-old boy has had a baby with his 16-year-old girlfriend, becoming one of Britain's youngest fathers and sparking renewed concerns about the rate of teenage pregnancies in the country.

Alfie Patten was only 12 when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15, conceived the daughter, Maisie Roxanne, after unprotected sex.

Police in Kenner City in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana charged Wednesday a 21-year-old woman from Metaire with first-degree murder for dumping her newborn into Lake Pontchartrain.

Ciara Craig told investigators her baby was alive when she threw it into the lake so the said charge was appropriate, Kenner Police Chief Steve Caraway said, according to NOLA.com.

Pregnant women who have a higher level of a hormone produced in the placenta have a higher likelihood of developing post-partum depression, according to a new study from the University of California in Irvine.

The researchers took blood samples from 100 pregnant women when they were 15, 19, 25, 31 and 37 weeks pregnant. During follow-up visits, 16 of the women were found to have developed the so-called "baby blues" in the weeks after their babies were born.