2007-02-11 15:49:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
A five year old got pregnant...that's the youngest.
2007-02-11 15:52:31 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Me 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Peruvian five-year-old Lina Medina, accompanied by her 11-month-old-son Gerardo, and Doctor Lozada who attended her son's birth, are shown in this 1940 file photo taken in Lima's hospital.
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.
Lina Medina's parents thought their 5-year-old daughter had a huge abdominal tumor and when shamans in their remote village in Peru's Andes could find no cure, her father carried her to a hospital.
Just over a month later, she gave birth to a boy.
Medina was born on September 27, 1933 in the small village of Paurange. She was only 5 years 8 months old at the birth of her child on Mother's Day, May 14, 1939.
Born at full term at Lima's maternity clinic, her child was taken through a caesarian operation (Dr. Lozada and Busalleu, operators, Dr. Colretta, anesthesiologist). The child (boy), weighing 2,700 grams, was well formed and in good health. Child and mother were able to leave the clinic after only a few days.
Doctor Lozada has conducted very detailed studies since the diagnostic of the pregnancy which aroused much curiosity in the country; he took an x-ray of the child and her baby, established a diagnostic of the fetal situation, observed the state of functionality of the little mother who had begun menstruating at the age of 8 months. At four years old she had already developed breasts as well as pubic hair, her body proportions were a bit amazing and her bone hardening a bit advanced, things that are often observed in cases of such premature pregnancy.
After taunting from schoolmates, Medina's son, Gerardo - who was named after one of the doctors who attended Medina and who became their mentor - discovered when he was 10 that the person he had grown up believing to be his sister was in fact his mother.
Gerardo died in 1979 at age 40 from a disease that attacks the body's bone marrow, but it was said it was not clear there was any link with his illness and the fact his mother had been so young at his birth.
Medina herself married and in 1972 had a second son, 33 years after her first. Her second child now lives in Mexico
2007-02-11 23:56:11 · answer #2 · answered by blahblahblah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When a girl starts having a period, she can get pregnant. My best friend started hers at nine, so in theory at least, she could have gotten pregnant then. The youngest I know of personally is 10, and that was a rape/incest case.
2007-02-11 23:58:08 · answer #3 · answered by Amanda M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Personally? 12
Historically, the youngest was 5 (see the story in the link)
so sad...
http://youngest_mother.tripod.com/
2007-02-11 23:52:47 · answer #4 · answered by ♪ ♥ ♪ ♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, In Britain There is an 11 year old and she is named thier youngest mother...
read this article she smokes 20 cigarrets a day! @ 11!!
http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/12579/Girl_11_Will_Be_Britain_s_Youngest_Mother
2007-02-11 23:54:09 · answer #5 · answered by Mrs McNallen<3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a girl in an orphanage in mexico where I was going on regular mission trips got pregnant at age 11. she was raped...and ended up losing the baby after a couple months.
2007-02-11 23:53:12 · answer #6 · answered by Sirius's Mommy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the youngest ever was 5 you can look it up in the search engines...check it out! kinda creepy if you ask me
2007-02-11 23:55:29 · answer #7 · answered by mommaof2girls&1onway 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I knew a guy that got a 12 year old pregnat.
2007-02-11 23:53:00 · answer #8 · answered by i♥mychristopher 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was in school their was this girl that was preg at 14.
2007-02-11 23:53:32 · answer #9 · answered by marshmellow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10-11. the girl can get pregnant when she begins to menstruate.
2007-02-11 23:52:58 · answer #10 · answered by xeternal_heavnx 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋