Youngest Person to Give Birth

This is an interesting, yet bizarre, weird and unbelievable fact! But you've got to believe it as it is documented.

The youngest person to give birth, the youngest mother in the world and in the history of humanity is a 5 year old Peruvian Girl. Her name was Lina Medina. See photo below.

Lina Medina, seven and a half months into pregnancy

According to Wikipedia:

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. Colretta 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.

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I refuse to believe this fact at first but it's real. A 5 year old, still a pre schooler gave birth to a healthy child and became a mother while she is still a baby. Life is amazing and I stand in awe at how things transpire in history and in the present.