What products she does have she has spaced out along the shelves to make them look a bit fuller. Every day people come looking for them and every day she has to turn them away. People are having to adapt. She had her first baby when she was 15 years old. Then she had a second baby, and hoped that would be it, but then she got pregnant with her third.
There's nothing and when you can get hold of them, the cost is beyond my reach. Financially it is a struggle. She lives with her children and partner in a corrugated iron shack in a poor neighbourhood of Barquisimeto. Now she is pregnant, she says her older boys have to go without clothes and shoes so she can pay for some of her medical tests. Teenage mothers According to the United Nations Population Fund, around one in four babies in Venezuela is born to a teenager.
The country has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in Latin America. A box of contraceptives could cost as much as what their parents earn [in a month], or even double that.
One of the other big concerns is malnutrition. Recent research suggests that three-quarters of Venezuelans lost weight in the past year, an average of 9kg 20lb. When they go to give birth, we're finding lots of malnourished girls. Supply shortages Women are often asked to bring a "kit" of medical supplies to the cash-strapped public hospitals. Gloves, antibiotics and robes to hand to the doctor before they give birth. There are no official statistics but paediatrician Dr Huniades Urbina Medina, the president of the Venezuelan Society of Childcare and Paediatrics, says that of the births he attends, the vast majority are now unplanned.
It's like a play for them but it's a real problem for us paediatricians, for obstetrics, for the hospital, for the future of the country. Dr Urbina blames the problem squarely on the government. So a teenager thinks if she if gets pregnant, she can leave her house and become an adult. Fear of unwanted pregnancy Betsimar Villalobos Reinosa is certainly growing up in And in two months' time there is another important date: the birth of her daughter Josehanny Alicet. Some girls try and find men because they're going hungry - they want somebody to provide for them.
