Lina Medina, a five year old girl from Peru, is the youngest person to ever give birth.
30 Dec
In the abysmally named district of Ticrapo the young girl was originally taken to hospital by her parent fearing that she was suffering from an enormous abdominal tumour. Her physician, Dr. Gerardo Lozada, took her to a hospital in Lima where it was determined, by X-Ray, that she was in fact seven months pregnant. Lina has never told how she became pregnant or the who she believes to be the father of the child.
It was on May 14, 1939 that Lina gave birth, by cesarean section, to her 6lb son Gerardo Medina. Gerardo lived until he was forty before dying of a bone marrow disease.
Lina is also considered to be the youngest person to go through a precocious puberty. One of Peru’s most prominent physicians at the time, Edmundo Escomel, ultimately documented it starting at just eight months old!
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