In 1939, a wholesome younger woman named Lina Medina gave beginning to an equally wholesome child boy. The solely noteworthy element about this occasion was the mom’s age: she was 5 years outdated.
In the early spring of 1939, mother and father in a distant village in Peru seen that their 5-year-old daughter’s stomach turned enlarged. Fearful that the continuous swelling was an indication of an belly tumor, Tiburelo Medina and Victoria Losea took their little woman from the household’s house in Ticrapo to a physician far-off in Lima.
To their shock and horror, the physician found that their daughter, Lina Medina, was seven months pregnant. Simply six weeks in a while Could 14, 1939, Medina gave beginning by way of c-section to a wholesome, six-pound child boy. At 5 years, seven months, and 21 days of age, she turned the youngest woman recognized to have given beginning.
Her case took pediatricians of the time abruptly and gained nationwide consideration that she and her household by no means wished. Medina has by no means revealed who the daddy was, and to at the present time she and her household nonetheless shun publicity from the skin world.
Regardless of the thriller that continues to encompass the case of the world’s youngest confirmed mom, extra perception has come to gentle on who the daddy of Lina Medina’s child was — and simply how she received pregnant.
