Five-year-old girl, Lina Medina, became the world’s youngest mum after going through puberty aged THREE
The five-year-old's parents discovered she was pregnant after her abdomen began growing and she started having stomach pains WHEN Lina Medina's stomach began growing, doctors were certain she was suffering from a large tumour - she was only five years old, after all. But after running tests they found she was seven months pregnant after being raped and weeks later she gave birth to a healthy baby boy. 80 years on, Lina is still the youngest person in the world to have ever given birth. She was born in a small village in the Andes in Peru to a poor family in 1933. At the age of five, her mother noticed her growing abdomen after she complained about having stomach pains. Just weeks later on May 14, 1939, she gave birth to a baby boy via Caesaerean as her young pelvis was deemed to small for a natural birth Her baby was born a healthy 6lbs and the infant was named Gerardo in honour of the doctor who delivered him. When Gerardo was born , the doctor discovered that despite only be...