Meet the youngest confirmed mother in medical history

Lina Medina with her son Gerardo

Born and raised in Peru, Lina Medina holds the title for the youngest girl history to give birth. Lina Medina, Born on september 27, 1933 confirmed to be the worlds youngest mother in recorded history.

Lina Medina in her pregnancy

She gave birth to Gerardo on may 14, 1939, by a caesarean section necessitated by her small pelvis at the age of five years, seven months, and 17 days. She lives in Lima, the capital of Peru.

Medina has never revealed the father of the child nor the circumstances of her impregnation.

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.

Mother and son

Her son grew up healthy. He died in 1979 at the age of 40, from either bone cancer or a bone marrow infection.

In young adulthood, Medina worked as a secretary in the Lima clinic of Lozada, who gave her an education and helped put her son through high school.

Lina Medina

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”