5 year old gives birth - Youngest mother in history

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This has to be the most disturbing thing I have heard in a long time. A five year old not only being raped but then having to go through pregnancy seems like the cruelest joke anyone could think of. So the fact that it's true is horrifying.


Lina Medina (born September 27, 1933) is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth at the age of 5 years, 7 months and 21 days.

Born in Peru, Lina was brought to a hospital by her parents at the age of 5 years because of increasing abdominal size. She was originally thought to have had a tumor, but her doctors determined she was in her seventh month of pregnancy. Dr. Gerardo Lozada took her to Lima, Peru, prior to the surgery to have other specialists confirm that Lina was in fact pregnant. A month and a half later, on May 14, 1939, she gave birth to a boy by a caesarean section necessitated by her small pelvis. The surgery was performed by Dr. Lozada and Dr. Busalleu, with Dr. Colareta providing anaesthesia. Her case was reported in detail by Dr. Edmundo Escomel to La Presse Medicale, along with the additional details that her menarche had occurred at 8 months of age (or 2 1/2 according to a different article[1]), and that she had had prominent breast development by the age of 4. By age 5 her figure displayed pelvic widening and advanced bone maturation.

Her son weighed 2.7 kg (6.0 lb/0.43 st) at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. Gerardo was raised believing that Lina was his sister, but found out at the age of ten that she was his mother. He grew up healthy but died in 1979 at the age of 40 of a disease of the bone marrow.

There was never evidence that Lina Medina's pregnancy occurred in any but the usual way, but she never revealed the father of the child, nor the circumstances of her impregnation. Dr. Escomel suggested she might not actually know herself by writing that Lina "couldn't give precise responses".

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mervnana

Eww 5 years old that mean she had it! and wow who did she have it eith! this is amazing but yet blahhhh1

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Antonia Jay Weaver

i think your sick she was raped she couldent help it could she its not ewww yeah its diffrent and wrong  but not eweww i cant beive you blamne her!!!  life not all about sex either!!!!

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Tom1o80

If this is not FAKE and I am really finding hard to believe.. then this is just sick who could do that to a poor five year old.

I would like to know if she is still alive if so how did she cope with the rest of her life??

 

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elisad

the article is on wikipedia, you can look it up there - not sure if there is much more info tho.

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RAVEEN

OMG WHAT HAPPEN TO HER O WOW I FEEL SO SORRY 4 HER I FEEL BAD 4 HER MAN TO ME I PERSONAL THINK THAT WHO EVER RAPED HER  SHOULD GO TO JAIL 4 LIFE LKE 4 REAL THATS JUST CRAZY OMG I CANT BELIVE MY EYES RIGHT NOW AND IM 13 AND I NO SHE WAZ SCARED BUT MAN O MAN O.g.M...O_M_G

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