Youngest Mother

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Youngest mother.......


Born 23rd September 1933, Lina Medina on 14th May 1939, became the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months, and 21 days.


She lives in Lima, the capital of Peru.
In the early spring of 1939, a worried family from a remote village in Peru took their five-year-old daughter to a doctor in faraway Lima. The girl’s belly had been growing for several months, and her mother was afraid she might have a tumour.


To their shock and dismay, the doctor diagnosed their daughter, Lina Medina, as being seven months pregnant.
Her case took the medical world of the time by surprise, and the matter has been the subject of speculation ever since.


The baby was named Gerardo after the doctor who diagnosed her. The child was raised believing that Medina was his sister. But Gerardo came to know the truth at the age of 10.
Gerardo died in 1979 at the age of 40. Medina worked as a secretary to Dr. Gerardo Lozado in Lima. Later she married Raúl Jurado and delivered her second son in 1972.


Medina, now 87, never revealed who the father was, and to this day she and her family shun publicity from the outside world.