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Lina Medina From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lina Medina Born	23 September 1933 (age 84)[1] Ticrapo, Castrovirreyna Province, Peru Nationality	Peruvian Known for	Youngest confirmed mother in medical history Spouse(s)	Raúl Jurado (m. 1970s) Children	Gerardo Medina 14 May 1939 – 1979 (aged 40) Raúl Jurado Jr. 1972 (age 44–45) Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlina meˈdina]; born on 23 September 1933[1]) is a Peruvian woman who became the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months, and 21 days.[1][2] She lives in Lima, the capital of Peru.[citation needed] Contents [hide] 1	Early life and development 2	Identity of the father and later life 3	Documentation 4	Notes 5	References Early life and development Born in Ticrapo, Castrovirreyna Province, Peru,[2] to silversmith Tiburcio Medina and Victoria Losa,[3] she was brought to a hospital by her parents at the age of five years due to increasing abdominal size. She was originally thought to have a tumor, but Dr. Gerardo Lozada Murillo, Director of the Government-owned Hospital of Beneficencia Publica for the District of Pisco, Department of Ica, Peru, determined she was in her seventh month of pregnancy.

Contemporary newspaper accounts indicate that interest in the case developed immediately on many fronts. The San Antonio Light newspaper reported in its 16 July, 1939, edition—in anticipation of the girl's expected visit to U.S. university scientific facilities—that a national Peruvian obstetrician/midwife association had demanded that the girl be transported to a national maternity hospital; the paper quoted 18 April reports in the Peruvian paper La Crónica stating that a North American film making concern had sent a representative "with authority to offer the sum of $5,000 to benefit the minor [in exchange for filming rights] ... we know that the offer was rejected."

The same article, reprinted from a Chicago paper, noted that Dr. Lozada had made films of Medina for scientific documentation and had shown them around 21 April while addressing Peru's National Academy of Medicine.

A month and a half after the original diagnosis, Medina gave birth by caesarean section to a boy. She was 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days,[1] the youngest known person in history to give birth. The caesarean birth was necessitated by her small pelvis. The surgery was performed by Dr. Gerardo Lozada Murillo and Dr. Alejandro Busalleu, with Dr. Rolando Colareta providing anaesthesia.

When doctors performed the caesarean section to deliver her baby, they found she already had fully mature sexual organs from precocious puberty.[2] Her case was reported in detail by Dr. Edmundo Escomel in the medical journal La Presse Médicale, including the additional details that her menarche had occurred at eight months of age, in contrast to a past report stating that she had been having regular periods since she was three years old[1][5][6] (or 2½ according to a different article).[2] The report also detailed that she had prominent breast development by the age of four. By age five, her figure displayed pelvic widening and advanced bone maturation.[citation needed]

Medina's son weighed 2.7 kg (6.0 lb; 0.43 st) at birth and was named and baptized as Gerardo Alejandro after the doctors involved in the surgery. Gerardo was raised believing that Medina was his sister, but found out at the age of 10 that she was, in fact, his mother.[1]

Identity of the father and later life...

Medina has never revealed who the father of her child was nor the circumstances of her impregnation. Escomel suggested she might not actually know herself by writing that Medina "couldn't give precise responses".[1] Although Lina's father was arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse, he was later released due to lack of evidence, and the biological father was never identified.[1][7] Her son grew up healthy. Dedicated to make it having a kiosk for books and magazines furthering knowledge, he died in 1979 at the age of 40 of an enlarged heart.[1]

In young adulthood, Medina worked as a secretary in the San Isidro "Clinica Lozada" belonging to Dr. Lozada, who gave her an education and helped put her son through high school.[8] Medina later married Raúl Jurado, who fathered her second son in 1972. As of 2002, they lived in a poor district of Lima known as "Chicago Chico".[9] She refused an interview with Reuters that year,[2] just as she had turned away many reporters in years past.[8]