What is lina medina?

  • Lina Medina (born September 27, 1933) is the youngest confirmed mother in history.

  • She was born in Ticrapo, Peru. Her parents took her to the hospital at the age of five due to an increasing abdominal size. Doctors initially suspected a tumor, but discovered she was seven months pregnant.

  • On May 14, 1939, at the age of five years, seven months, and 21 days, she gave birth by cesarean section to a healthy boy named Gerardo, who was named after her doctor.

  • The identity of the child's father has never been publicly revealed. https://www.wikiwhat.page/kavramlar/Child's%20Father

  • There was considerable debate about whether her case was real, but the medical documentation (including photos and X-rays) strongly suggests that it was a genuine instance of precocious puberty. https://www.wikiwhat.page/kavramlar/Precocious%20Puberty

  • Gerardo was raised believing Medina was his sister, and he only learned the truth when he was 10 years old. He died in 1979 at the age of 40, from a bone marrow disease.

  • Lina Medina later married and had another son in 1972. https://www.wikiwhat.page/kavramlar/Married

  • She lived a quiet life with her family in a poor district of Lima. https://www.wikiwhat.page/kavramlar/Lima