The youngest mother in the world: life and fate of the girl who gave birth to a child in 5 years
'14.08.2019'
Source: Woman.ru
14 May 1939, in one of the clinics in the Peruvian capital of Lima, passed the next birth. A healthy baby was born who weighed a kilogram of 2,7. Everything in this story seems normal, except for one thing - the age of the mother. The mother was only 5 years old and 7 months old ...
It's hard to believe, but the age of the youngest mother in the world is five and a half years. Peruvian Lina Medina became the “Receptionist”. The girl gave birth to her first child when she herself was still playing with dolls. Woman.ru.
Lina was born in the small town of Tikrapo in 1933. Her father, Tiburelo Medina, made decorations, and her mother, Victoria Losea, followed the house and children, which, by the way, besides Lina, there were eight more in the family. The girl's childhood was the same as that of all her peers, but in the physical plane she had to grow up much earlier than anyone in the entire history of medical observations.
One day, Lina's parents noticed that her belly began to grow literally before our eyes.
Not being scared, they decided to seek help from the doctors, but it was not so easy to do that - there was not even a medical center in their village, not to mention hospitals. The head of the family Tiburelo together with little Lena went to the town of Pisco.
Exhausted by the hard road on the slings, father and daughter finally got to the clinic. Tiburelo begged as soon as possible to examine the girl - he was sure that she was mortally ill and would die soon.
Dr. Gerardo Lozado, who conducted the examination, was shocked. He found that Lina Medina, 5-year-old, has no tumor - the girl was seven months pregnant!
As it turned out, at her age, her reproductive system was already fully formed. With this news, the doctor stunned his colleagues and the baby's father, after which he immediately called the police.
Tiburelo Medina was immediately detained on suspicion of raping her own daughter. However, he was soon released: there was no evidence against him, as well as the opportunity to prove that he was the father of his own daughter's child.
The doctors decided that there was no reason to terminate Lina’s pregnancy and began to closely monitor the health of the youngest mother in the world. As later tests showed, her first menstruation occurred at almost three years of age, but this did not make her relatives go to doctors. On the other hand, perhaps they did not know about the critical days of the baby. It was not possible to establish this precisely because Lina's parents did not want to communicate with the press, and the doctors strictly observed medical secrecy.
Kind Doctor
After the first meeting with baby Lina at the Pisco clinic, Dr. Gerardo Lozado continued to monitor her pregnancy. Surprisingly, a small Peruvian bravely endured all the inconveniences associated with an interesting position. The doctor insisted that the girl be transferred to the metropolitan clinic in Lima.
It was there that the 14 of May 1939 was born by a planned cesarean section. An absolutely healthy boy weighing a kilogram of 2,7 was born.
Despite the fact that Lina's reproductive system was fully formed and ready for bearing a child, the doctors decided on surgical intervention. The pelvic bones of a little girl physically could not expand so that the child passed through the birth canal. Details of the birth of the youngest mother in the history of medical observations were recorded in the specialized magazine La Presse Medicale. By the way, it was also indicated there that by the time the baby was born, Lina's breast was filled with milk and ready for feeding the baby.
Nevertheless, Juan Falen, one of the doctors who studied the case of the earliest pregnancy recorded by the scientific community, once said in an interview with Reuters: “She gave birth, but remained a child. Such early puberty triggered reproductive abilities in her body, but mentally and chronologically she is still a child. ”
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The newborn was named after the doctor who took birth - Gerardo.
Who is the father? Despite the fact that neither the young mother herself, nor her parents never gave comments about who was Gerardo's father, the journalists did not leave any attempts to find out. However, even if Lina did not refuse to communicate with the press, she could simply not remember how and under what circumstances her first-born was conceived, because at that time she was only a little over four years old.
The girl could not easily see the face of the father of the child, because, based on what is known about this pregnancy, she came after violence ...
This is confirmed by almost the only commentary from the Medina family. One day, one of her relatives blurted out that a girl could be raped when she went to the river to wash clothes (this was part of her household duties).
All attempts by the police to investigate this case remained unsuccessful - involvement in the pregnancy of the father and other relatives of Lina was impossible to prove.
In addition, her family was part of the Peruvian Indian community, where, like many centuries ago, the shamanic traditions were strong. Many festivities, even in the 20 century, ended in orgies, which Lin could become a victim of. It is easy to guess that they, to put it mildly, did not want to cooperate with the investigation.
Life goes on
Many institutes and research laboratories dreamed of studying Lina's body from a scientific point of view - for physicians this case became a real phenomenon. However, after the birth of the first child, the youngest mother in the world went to her native village, Tikrapo, because her parents did not allow her to make “experimental mice” out of her daughter and grandson.
Until 10, little Gerardo grew up in full confidence that Lina was his sister, not his mother, and Tiburelo and Victoria were parents, not grandfather and grandmother. There are even archival images taken a year after birth. On them baby Gerardo plays with his mom in their common toys.
All this time, Dr. Lozado, who took the girl’s childbirth, did not leave her, monitored the health of her son. Later, the doctor helped Gerardo get a good education, and Lin offered a job as a secretary in the clinic where he worked.
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Quite adult
So lived mom and son, the age difference of which was only 5 years. When Lina turned 33, she married Raul Jurado and bore him a son Raul Jr. Journalists managed to get even this scant information with great difficulty, because the young woman still avoided any public talk about herself and her life.
Ironically, the firstborn of the youngest mother in the world died earlier than herself. In 40 years, Gerardo was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer.
According to experts, there is no connection between this disease and the fact that he was born so early.
Little is known about Lina’s fate after losing her son. According to rumors, she spent her whole life in the poorest district of Lima with her husband and second son. A woman who has gone down in the history of world medicine from a heart attack in 2015 died. She was 82 of the year. And the record, which she, without knowing it, set at the age of five, fortunately, has not yet been "surpassed."
