Lima, Aug. 26 (Reuters): Lina Medina’s parents thought their five-year-old daughter had a huge abdominal tumour and when shamans in their remote village in Peru’s Andes could find no cure, her father carried her to hospital.
Lina Medina became the youngest mother in history by giving birth at the age of five years. This story is still a medical wonder and hard to believe, but it is true. Lina Medina was born in Ticrapo, Castrovirreyna Province, Peru, and she was one of nine children. In April 1939, Lina. Lina Medina, 5 years 7 months, Peru. Lina Medina, from Peru, gave birth by C-section at the age of 5. The infant was a 5.8 lb., 18.7 in. Medina’s parents thought their daughter had a tumor and took her to a hospital where doctors found out that she was 7 months pregnant. Medina’s father was arrested on suspicion of sexual abuse. This new mother is among the world's youngest mothers, but not the youngest. The youngest reported mother in the world is Lina Medina of Peru, who was pregnant at five years, eight months old, and gave birth to a normal boy at age six, five months. According to a Time magazine article, Lina's boy grew up perfectly healthy. When the boy was in.
Just over a month later, she gave birth to a boy.
Aged five years, seven months and 21-days-old when her child was born by Caesarean section in May 1939, Medina made medical history, and is still the youngest known mother in the world. At the time, Peru’s government promised aid that never materialised. Six decades on, Medina lives with her husband in a cramped house in a poor, crime-ridden district of Lima known as “Little Chicago.”
Lina Medina Baby Daddy
Now 68, she keeps to herself and has long refused requests to rake up the past. Gerardo, the son she delivered while still a child herself, died in 1979 at the age of 40. But a new book, written by an obstetrician who has been interested in her case, has drawn fresh attention to Medina’s story, and raised the prospect that the Peruvian government may belatedly offer her financial and other assistance. “The government condemned them to live in poverty. In any other country, they would be the objects of special care,” Jose Sandoval, author of Mother Aged 5, said.
“We still have time to repair the damage done to her. That’s my fundamental objective,” he added. Sandoval has raised Medina’s case with the office of First Lady Eliane Karp, and has asked the government to grant her a life pension — something officials say is possible. “We’re totally willing to help her,” said spokeswoman Marta Castaneda. But Suni Ramos, of the social action department of Karp’s office, said that before the government could grant her a pension or any other of the aid it was already planning — such as kitchen and other household equipment — it needed to talk to her to discuss what she wanted and needed.
It is currently trying to contact Medina and her family. Medina’s husband, Raul Jurado, said his wife remained sceptical. “She got no help (in 1939) that I know about,” he said. “She thinks governments never deliver. Maybe today there will be a promise that will never come true.”
Jurado said his wife, whose story is a medical textbook classic and whose case is confirmed as true by such bodies as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, had turned down Reuters’ request for an interview.
No one has ever established who was the father of Medina’s child, or confirmed she became pregnant after being raped.
One of nine children born to country folk in Ticrapo, an Andean village at an altitude of 7,400 feet in Peru’s poorest province, Medina is believed to be the youngest case of precocious puberty in history, Sandoval said.
He said she had her first period at two-and-a-half, became pregnant aged four years and eight months and that when doctors performed the Caesarean to deliver her baby, they found she already had fully mature sexual organs.
When they say wonders shall never end, that’s probably because the wonders didn’t start today. Some people will say nothing is new under the sun, we’ve seen several cases of teenage pregnancies, but this is much more different. I’m sure anyone will be surprised if you see a 10 years old girl with pregnancy of the street. Now, imagine a girl who isn’t up to 6 years being pregnant. You find it very difficult to believe right? I would too, if I were you. It doesn’t even sound medically correct for such to have happened, going by our knowledge of biology and puberty, a 5 years girl wouldn’t have developed reproductive organs to support having a baby. Whether you choose to believe it or not, history has it that, the youngest mother was a 5 years old girl.
In the early spring of 1939, a family in a small Peruvian community found that the stomach of their 5-year-old child had been swollen. Tiburelo Medina and Victoria Losea carried their baby girl from the father's home in Ticrapo to a physician far out in Lima, afraid that the constant inflammation was a symptom of an abdominal tumor.
The physician found, to their surprise and dismay, that their child, Lina Medina, was seven months pregnant. Just six weeks later, on May 14, 1939, Medina gave birth to a stable, six-pound newborn baby by surgery. She became the youngest girl known to have given birth at 5 years, seven months, and 21 days of age.
Till date, the person responsible for the child remains unknown as the family decided not to talk about the matter. Some people are of the opinion that the girl never knew who was responsible for her pregnancy. The father of the child was once arrested for abusing her and impregnating her, but was later released due to lack of evidence.
Baby Asian Lina Medina Pregnant 2017
She raised her child and he grew like a normal child, but he eventually died of bone marrow disease at the age of 40. He wasn’t the only child she gave birth to as remarried and had another child at 39. According to Wikipedia, Lina is still said to be alive till date, she will be 87 by now. Truly, wonders shall never end. Do you believe this story or you think it’s a coax?