The Youngest Person to Give Nativity Was Only 5 Years Old

Today I plant out that the youngest person to ever become pregnant and give birth was only 5 years old!

Lina Medina was built-in on September 27th, 1933 in Ticrapo, Peru. At historic period v, her female parent, Victoria, brought her to a hospital because her stomach was increasing in size. Her parents originally idea Lina was possessed by evil spirits, but upon examining her, Dr. Geraldo Lozada establish she was approximately 8 months pregnant. A calendar month and a half after her diagnosis, on May 14, 1939, Lina gave birth via caesarian section to a infant male child.

Lina was able to get pregnant at such a young historic period due to a rare condition known as precocious puberty, basically, an early onset of sexual development. Nearly girls brainstorm showing signs of puberty around 10 years onetime. The majority of boys tend to become through puberty starting effectually the historic period of 11-12. People with precocious puberty tend to brainstorm puberty around the age seven. Shockingly, according to her mother, Lina, on the other paw, began having menstrual cycles at age two ½ and her breasts were developed by age iv. When the doctors examined her at age 5, she was establish to already take fully mature sexual organs.

Lina Medina's son, Gerardo, was named after Lina'southward physician and grew upward believing that his female parent was his sister. It wasn't until the age of 10 that he found out who his female parent really was. He died in 1979 at 40 years old of a os marrow disease. Lina never revealed the begetter of the child, nor the circumstances of her impregnation. According to a 1955 article reviewing the case, done past Luis Leon of the Associated Press, "Some pointed out there were frequent festivities celebrated by Indians in Andean villages, like the one where Lina was born. These often ended up in orgies in which rape was non uncommon."

While this is hardly something i would want to hold the tape for, for a so many reasons, information technology would seem that Lina is unlikely to lose this tape any time soon (or i would at least hope so!)  So, for at present, the electric current record for youngest homo existence to requite birth to another is 5 years, 7 months, and 17 days, which means she was probably impregnated a month or two before her fifth birthday.  Disturbing…

Bonus Facts

  • At age 70, Rajo Devi Lohan became the oldest person to ever requite birth to a kid.  Xviii months after she announced that she was dying from complications from the pregnancy.
  • There are several theories every bit to what factors might crusade precocious puberty, such as: increased caloric intake; foods rich in artificial hormones; and diverse environmental factors similar pesticides, such as DDT. Most recently, researchers have pinpointed a gene (a protein called GPR54) that regulates puberty.  Mutations in this factor have been shown to cause deviations in sexual development.
  • Precocious puberty in boys, defined as development earlier age 9, is quite rare (1 in 10,000 in the United states of america), simply when it does occur is oftentimes associated with fundamental nervous system problems that need treatment.
  • A study done in Denmark from 1993-2001 showed that the incidence of precocious puberty in girls less than 2 years of age was 0.5 per 10,000. From this start epidemiological written report based on national registries, it was estimated that 0.ii% of all Danish girls and <0.05% of Danish boys had some form of precocious pubertal development.
  • According to the American Medical Clan, sexual violence and rape in particular, is considered the most under-reported violent criminal offence.
  • A 2007 authorities report from England says "Estimates from research propose that between 75 and 95 per cent of rape crimes are never reported to the police." The most common reasons given by victims for non reporting rapes are the belief that information technology is a personal or private thing and that they fearfulness retaliation from the attacker.
  • It is estimated that a adult female built-in in Due south Africa has a greater adventure of being raped than learning how to read. The Due south African Police Service readily admits that even though at that place is now a greater awareness of the trouble, more stringent penalties, and meliorate policing, the vast majority of rapes and attempted rapes however get unreported and unpunished.
  • Wednesday has more than births on average than whatever other solar day of the week, 15.4% more then any other day. Dominicus is the slowest 24-hour interval.
  • C-Sections business relationship for 31.one% of all births in the U.s., ascension 50% over the last decade.  Induced labor accounts for 22.five% of births in the U.Southward.

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