5 years old gave birth?

In the spring of 1939, a couple living in a remote village in Peru noticed that their 5-year-old daughter’s belly was unusually large. Fearing that it was a tumor, they took the girl to see a doctor in Lima for an examination.

Lina Medina as a newborn at the age of 5 (left) and with her son when she was 11 years old. To the shock of the couple, the doctor said their daughter was 7 months pregnant. Soon after, she gave birth to a healthy baby boy via caesarean section. At the age of five, 7 months and 21 days, she became the youngest mother in the world. Rare disease Born on September 23, 1933, Lina Medina is one of nine children in the family. Her pregnancy at such a young age was a shock to her relatives, as well as to the public. But for pediatric endocrinologists, a 5-year-old pregnancy is entirely possible. They believe that Medina has a rare genetic condition, called precocious puberty, that causes a child’s body to transform into an adult body too soon (before age 8 for girls and before age 9 for girls). boy). Boys with this disorder will have a low voice, rapid genital growth, and girls will have periods and breasts develop early. It is estimated that 1 in 10,000 children has precocious puberty, and the incidence is 10 times higher in girls than in boys. Scientists don’t know the exact cause of the disorder, but recent studies have found that girls who are sexually abused may experience puberty earlier than their peers. Regarding the case of Lina Medina, Dr Edmundo Escomel, of the University of Ricardo Palma, Peru reported in a medical journal that she had her first period when she was only 8 months old. However, other documents indicate that she started menstruating at the age of 3. Either way, it’s an amazingly early start. Closer examination of Medina at the age of 5 showed that she had developed breasts, wider hips and bone growth (signs of post-puberty). Although, her body develops prematurely, she is still an innocent child. Who is the author of the fetus? Precocious puberty partly explains Lina Medina’s pregnancy. But it doesn’t clear things up. Of course, there must be someone responsible for the pregnancy but certainly not some boy with the same condition as her. Meanwhile, Medina has not told doctors or authorities about the father of the baby, or what circumstances led to her pregnancy. Tiburelo, Medina’s father, who worked as a local silversmith, was arrested on suspicion of raping his son. However, he was soon released due to the lack of evidence, or the lack of witnesses to convict him. Consistently, Tiburelo staunchly denies raping her daughter. According to some media outlets, Medina may have been abused during festivals that took place near her village. However, there is nothing to prove this conjecture. Mother and daughter are only 5 years apart. What happens to the young mother? When news of Lina Medina’s pregnancy spread, it attracted attention from all over the world. Newspapers in Peru offered to give Lina Medina’s family thousands of dollars for the right to interview and film her, but were unsuccessful. Many newspapers even offered to provide money for Melina’s family to settle in the United States. But Medina and her family declined all offers and did not answer any questions regarding the case. More than 80 years on, neither Medina nor her family have taken advantage of this strange phenomenon to their profit, while medical records from that time provide complete documentation of her condition during pregnancy. . In it, accompanied by the report of the doctors treating her, the abdominal X-ray pictures clearly showed the bones of a developing fetus inside her body. Other tests also confirmed she was pregnant. Medina’s baby at birth weighing about 2.5kg was named Gerardo, after the doctor who first examined her. Two years after the birth, an expert in child education at Columbia University named Paul Koask was allowed to visit the Medina family. He rated the world’s youngest mother as “above normal intelligence” and her baby “absolutely normal”. Medina saw the child as a younger brother and so did her siblings in the family. An obstetrician named Jose Sandoval, who has written a book about Medina’s case, said she prefers to play with dolls than with children. As for Gerardo, he grew up thinking Medina was his older sister and only learned the truth when he was 10 years old. Gerardo was healthy for most of his life, but sadly, he died quite young at the age of 40, in 1979. The cause of death was bone disease. Lina Medina, after the shock of pregnancy, continues to live a quiet life in Peru. In the early 1970s, she married a man named Rául Jurado and gave birth to her second son when she was almost 40 years old. They live in a poor neighborhood in Lima and still avoid prying eyes. Since 2002, no one knows how her life and her family are. If alive, Medina would be 88 years old now.