When her son was born by caesarean section in May 1939. Madina made medical history and is still the youngest known mother in the world.
Lina Medina's parents thought their five year old had a huge abdominal and when Shamans in the remote in Peru could not cure her, her father sent her to a hospital.
Just over a month later she gave birth to a baby boy.
Medina was born on September 27, 1933 in the small village of Paurange. She was only five years and eight month old at the birth of her child on mothers day May14, 1993.
Born at full term at Lima's martenity clinic. Her child was taken through a caesarean operation (Dr Lozada and Busallue, operators, Dr Colretta, Anesthesiologist). The child a boy weighing 2,700 grams, was well formed and in good health child and mother where able to leave the clinic after only a few days.
Doctor Lozada ha conducted very detailed studies since the diagnose of the pregnancy which aroused much curiosity in the country; he took an x-ray of the child her baby, established a diagnose of the fetal situation, observed the state of functionality of the little mother who had began menstration at the age of 8 month. At four years old she had already developed breast and pubic hair, her body proportions where a bit amazing and her bone hardening a bit advanced, things that are often observed in cases of such premature pregnancy.
After taunting from school mates, Madina's son Gerardo who was named after on of the doctors who attended madina and who became their mentor - discovered when he was ten that the person he had grown up believing to be his sister was in fact his mother.
Gerardo died in 1972 at age 40 from a disease that attacks the body's born marrow, but it was said it was not clear there was any link with his illness and the fact his mother was so young during his birth
Medina herself got married and in 1972 had a second son 33 years after her first. Her second child now lives in mexico.
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