Youngest mother on record: 5 YEARS OLD
Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:52 pm
source: http://scienceroll.com/2006/12/09/th...t-mother-ever/
There are always some kinds of records that you just can?t believe. These cases are outside the borders of rational thinking. The youngest mother was a 5 year old Peruvian girl. I thought that it?s just an other urban legend, but the images and the sources convinced me. Ok, a five year old girl is not matured enough to give birth to a child. The absence of puberty, menstrual cycle, proper development of the uterus makes it impossible, but:
Her name was Lina Medina, a Peruvian girl from the Andean village of Ticrapo? Lina?s parents initially thought their daughter had a large abdominal tumor? but Lina was eventually transferred to a hospital in Lima, where she delivered a six-pound baby boy by Cesarean section on 14 May 1939. Lina?s father was temporarily jailed on suspicion of incest, but he was released for a lack of evidence and authorities were never ableto determine who fathered Lina?s child.
By the way, the answers are here: her doctors were stunned as she had been having regular periods since the age of three. According ot her doctor, Escomel, she had an extraordinary hormonal disorder of the pituitary gland.
Jose Sandoval, an obstetrician who took an interest in Lina Medina?s case and authored a book about her in 2002 said that Lina was a psychologically normal child, that she displayed no other unusual medical symptoms, and that she preferred playing with dolls rather than her own child.
snopes article that supports this: http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp
There are always some kinds of records that you just can?t believe. These cases are outside the borders of rational thinking. The youngest mother was a 5 year old Peruvian girl. I thought that it?s just an other urban legend, but the images and the sources convinced me. Ok, a five year old girl is not matured enough to give birth to a child. The absence of puberty, menstrual cycle, proper development of the uterus makes it impossible, but:
Her name was Lina Medina, a Peruvian girl from the Andean village of Ticrapo? Lina?s parents initially thought their daughter had a large abdominal tumor? but Lina was eventually transferred to a hospital in Lima, where she delivered a six-pound baby boy by Cesarean section on 14 May 1939. Lina?s father was temporarily jailed on suspicion of incest, but he was released for a lack of evidence and authorities were never ableto determine who fathered Lina?s child.
By the way, the answers are here: her doctors were stunned as she had been having regular periods since the age of three. According ot her doctor, Escomel, she had an extraordinary hormonal disorder of the pituitary gland.
Jose Sandoval, an obstetrician who took an interest in Lina Medina?s case and authored a book about her in 2002 said that Lina was a psychologically normal child, that she displayed no other unusual medical symptoms, and that she preferred playing with dolls rather than her own child.
snopes article that supports this: http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp
Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:13 pm
Wow.Just wow.
Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:22 pm
Whoa. My science teacher or health teacher would love to see this.
Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:57 pm
Wow. That gets you thinking about what other seeming impossible things could've happened. Must've hurt, though!
Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:16 pm
Amazing though I do feel for the poor child who gave birth and her child.
By the way what happened to her child? (I mean was it adopted or are her family raising it as if it were her own brother?)
By the way what happened to her child? (I mean was it adopted or are her family raising it as if it were her own brother?)
Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:48 pm
That poor kid. And her poor son too. I'd be sad if my mommy was only 5 and couldn't take care of me. :{
Re: Youngest mother on record: 5 YEARS OLD
Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:54 pm
Kym wrote:source: http://scienceroll.com/2006/12/09/th...t-mother-ever/
There are always some kinds of records that you just can?t believe. These cases are outside the borders of rational thinking. The youngest mother was a 5 year old Peruvian girl. I thought that it?s just an other urban legend, but the images and the sources convinced me. Ok, a five year old girl is not matured enough to give birth to a child. The absence of puberty, menstrual cycle, proper development of the uterus makes it impossible, but:
Her name was Lina Medina, a Peruvian girl from the Andean village of Ticrapo? Lina?s parents initially thought their daughter had a large abdominal tumor? but Lina was eventually transferred to a hospital in Lima, where she delivered a six-pound baby boy by Cesarean section on 14 May 1939. Lina?s father was temporarily jailed on suspicion of incest, but he was released for a lack of evidence and authorities were never ableto determine who fathered Lina?s child.
By the way, the answers are here: her doctors were stunned as she had been having regular periods since the age of three. According ot her doctor, Escomel, she had an extraordinary hormonal disorder of the pituitary gland.
Jose Sandoval, an obstetrician who took an interest in Lina Medina?s case and authored a book about her in 2002 said that Lina was a psychologically normal child, that she displayed no other unusual medical symptoms, and that she preferred playing with dolls rather than her own child.
snopes article that supports this: http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp
Tremendously freaky hormonal disorder makes her fertile at age 5. It doesn't make it a miracle though! Certainly one of the youngest cases of puberty, I remember a girl who started when she was 7, but she recieved hormonal treatment.
Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:58 pm
Wow.. this is .. shocking
I've heard about records of girls having getting their menstrual cycle all normal and regular and being only like 3 or 4.
But a mother at 5?
Wow.. that's hard to believe. o___O;;
I've heard about records of girls having getting their menstrual cycle all normal and regular and being only like 3 or 4.
But a mother at 5?
Wow.. that's hard to believe. o___O;;
Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:29 pm
Was reading about this not long ago. Quite weird, and it just proves that freaky things like this happened back in the day too.
Although it's quite sad that she was pregnant at that age. That means someone abused her, and to do that to a 5-year-old girl is unforgivable.
Although it's quite sad that she was pregnant at that age. That means someone abused her, and to do that to a 5-year-old girl is unforgivable.
Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:00 pm
That's very sad 
I agree with what the last poster said. Doing that to a five year old girl is unforgiveable. It only worsens the fact that she had that hormonal condition too
I agree with what the last poster said. Doing that to a five year old girl is unforgiveable. It only worsens the fact that she had that hormonal condition too
Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:39 pm
Shakira_Shoyru wrote:Wow.. this is .. shocking
I've heard about records of girls having getting their menstrual cycle all normal and regular and being only like 3 or 4.
But a mother at 5?
Wow.. that's hard to believe. o___O;;
OMG. I'd hate that. XP
That's...amazing.
That poor girl.
Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:23 pm
Ugh, I heard about this a few years ago- really, really sad thing to happen to someone (being raped and then becoming pregnant because of it)- of any age, really. But at 5... That's just awful.
And in the late 1930s, too... (no, that doesn't really contribute to it, but at such a time, they wouldn't even know who the father was AT ALL, due to a lack of DNA testing and such)
AND the son died almost 30 years ago, but she's still alive, apparently- imagine becoming pregnant at the age of 5, growing up with your son as if he were your brother, and then having him die before you? I truly feel sorry for this woman. >_<
...exactly how does that warrant a laughing emoticon? I don't see what's funny about this situation. :/
And in the late 1930s, too... (no, that doesn't really contribute to it, but at such a time, they wouldn't even know who the father was AT ALL, due to a lack of DNA testing and such)
AND the son died almost 30 years ago, but she's still alive, apparently- imagine becoming pregnant at the age of 5, growing up with your son as if he were your brother, and then having him die before you? I truly feel sorry for this woman. >_<
DM was on fire! wrote:Shakira_Shoyru wrote:Wow.. this is .. shocking
I've heard about records of girls having getting their menstrual cycle all normal and regular and being only like 3 or 4.
But a mother at 5?
Wow.. that's hard to believe. o___O;;
OMG. I'd hate that. XP
...exactly how does that warrant a laughing emoticon? I don't see what's funny about this situation. :/
Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:34 pm
Combusken BG wrote:By the way what happened to her child? (I mean was it adopted or are her family raising it as if it were her own brother?)
According to my Psychology teacher, they attended the same grade school at the same time, so I'd say the baby was raised by the family.
Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:04 pm
Wow, that really is.. there aren't really words for that. I feel bad for the girl and her family