Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado is a Peruvian woman who became the youngest confirmed mother in history when she gave birth on 14 May 1939, aged five years, seven months, and 21 days.
10 Facts About Lina Medina
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Lina Medina was born in 1933 in Ticrapo, Castrovirreyna Province, Peru, to parents Tiburelo Medina, a silversmith, and Victoria Losea.
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Lina Medina's parents took her to a hospital in Pisco at age five due to increasing abdominal size.
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Six weeks after the diagnosis, on 14 May 1939, Lina Medina gave birth to a boy by caesarean section.
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Lina Medina was 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days old, the youngest person in history to give birth.
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Lina Medina was raised believing Medina to be his sister before finding out at age 10 that she was his mother.
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Lina Medina's son grew up healthy, but died in 1979 at the age of 40 from bone marrow disease.
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Lina Medina has never revealed the identity of the father nor the circumstances of her impregnation.
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In young adulthood, Lina Medina worked as a secretary in the Lima clinic of Lozada, which gave her an education and helped put her son through high school.
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The first was taken around the beginning of April 1939, when Lina Medina was seven and a half months into pregnancy.