The strategies used to gain achieving balance
can be organized into four categories:
1) adjusting to new identities, 2) adapting
lifestyles, 3) coping with the new roles, and 4) asking
for supports which are described as follows.
Adjusting to new identities: Adjusting to new
identities meant the adolescent mother changed herself
from a female adolescent to be a maternal identity after
giving birth and while engaged in childrearing and
schooling. The participants defined a mother as a woman
who sacrificed, gave love and warmth, and took
responsibility to nurture her child. They sensed