Lina Medina
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Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado is a Peruvian woman who became the youngest confirmed mother in history when she gave birth to her son Gerardo on 14 May 1939 when she was five years, seven months, and 21 days of age. Based on the medical assessments of her pregnancy, she was four years old when she became pregnant, which was biologically possible due to precocious puberty.
Lina Medina is a Peruvian woman who holds the record as the youngest confirmed mother in history, having given birth at age five in 1939; she had become pregnant at age four due to precocious puberty, a rare medical condition that caused her body to mature abnormally early. Her case is medically significant because it represents an extreme example of how precocious puberty can affect human development, though the circumstances of her pregnancy remain a stark illustration of extreme vulnerability in childhood.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Marcela
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Peru
- Place of birth
- Ticrapo District
- Occupation
- stenographer
- Languages spoken
- Latin American Spanish
- Native language
- Latin American Spanish
- Field of work
- typewriter
- Image
- Lina Medina.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Significant event
- human pregnancy
Show 8 more facts
- name in native language
- Lina Medina
- date of birth
- 1933-09-23
- medical condition
- precocious puberty
- married name
- Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado
- date of death
- 2015-11-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- birth name
- Lina Marcela Medina
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Encyclopedic overview
Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado ( Latin American Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlina maɾˈsela meˈðina ðe xuˈɾaðo]; née Medina; born 23 September 1933) is a Peruvian woman who became the youngest confirmed mother in history when she gave birth to her son Gerardo on 14 May 1939 when she was five years, seven months, and 21 days of age. Based on the medical assessments of her pregnancy, she was four years old when she became pregnant, which was biologically possible due to precocious puberty.
Early life and development
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