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Lina Medina (born September 27, 1933) is a Peruvian woman who is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and 17 days. She lives in Lima, the capital of Peru. ==Early life and development== Born in Ticrapo, Peru, to silversmith Tiburelo Medina and Victoria Losea,〔Elgar Brown (for ''Chicago Evening American''). "American scientists await U.S. visit of youngest mother: Peruvian girl and baby will be exhibited," ''San Antonio Light'', July 11, 1939, page 2A.〕 Medina 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 had a tumor, but her doctors determined she was in her seventh month of pregnancy. Dr. Gerardo Lozada took her to Lima, Peru, to have other specialists confirm that Medina was pregnant. Contemporary newspaper accounts indicate that interest in the case developed on many fronts. The ''San Antonio Light'' newspaper reported in its July 16, 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 April 18 reports in the Peruvian paper ''La Crónica'' stating that a North American filmmaking concern sent a representative "with authority to offer the sum of $5,000 to benefit the minor (exchange for filming rights ) ... we know that the offer was rejected."〔Elgar Brown (for ''Chicago Evening American''). "Wide sympathy aroused by plight of child-mother: opportunity seen to make Lina independent," ''San Antonio Light'', July 16, 1939, page 4.〕 The same article, reprinted from a Chicago paper, noted that Lozada had made films of Medina for scientific documentation and had shown them around April 21 while addressing Peru's National Academy of Medicine; on a subsequent visit to visit Lina's remote hometown, some of the baggage carrying the films had been dropped into the river while crossing "a very primitive bridge": "Enough of his pictorial record remained, however, to intrigue the learned savants."〔 A month and a half after the original diagnosis, Medina, at the age of 5 years and 7 months, gave birth to a boy by a caesarean section on May 14, 1939, necessitated by her small pelvis, which made her the youngest known person in history to give birth. The surgery was performed by Lozada and Dr. Busalleu, with Dr. Colareta providing anaesthesia. When doctors performed the caesarean to deliver her baby, they found she already had fully mature sexual organs from precocious puberty.〔 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〔 (or 2½ according to a different article).〔 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. Medina's son weighed at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. Gerardo was raised believing that Medina was his sister, but found out at the age of 10 that she was his mother.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lina Medina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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