Lina Medina

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Lina Medina Lazo (born September 23 or 27, 1933 in Ticrapo in the Huancavelica region , Peru ) went down in medical history as the youngest mother in the world and the youngest confirmed case of precocious puberty .

Life

Lina Medina was born in Ticrapo in 1933, in a village in the Andes in one of the poorest areas of Peru. Her mother is Victoria Loza and her father is Tiburcio Medina. She has eight siblings.

At first it was suspected that Lina Medina had a tumor in the abdominal area. After admission to the Pisco hospital , an X-ray examination revealed a fully developed small skeleton. She was seven months pregnant.

On May 14, 1939 - at the age of five years, seven months and a few days - Lina Medina gave birth to her first son Gerardo in Lima . The doctors Gerardo Lozada, Alejandro Busalleu and Rolando Colareta performed the caesarean section . The child weighed 2,700 g at birth and was developed normally. During the birth, doctors performed an examination of Lina Medina's body and took tissue samples from her. The birth was accompanied by massive interest from the Peruvian media, so the hospital had to be protected by the police in the meantime.

Lina Medina received no financial or other support from the Peruvian state in her difficult situation. After the birth of her son, Lina Medina was visited by "hundreds of representatives (" representatives ") who wanted to take advantage of her and her son abroad". The doctors turned down these offers - against the opposition of their father, Tiburelo Medina, who hoped for benefits for his family. The plan to “exhibit” her and her son at the New York World's Fair was thwarted by the Peruvian government. The family initially returned to their home village.

The tissue samples and Lina herself were examined that same year by Edmundo Escomel, one of the most important Peruvian medical researchers of his time. Lina Medina suffered from precocious puberty in her childhood . According to her own statements, she had her first menstruation at the age of two and a half, according to other statements at the age of three. Reproductive organs , body hair, and bone hardness were in an adult status. Lina Medina was unable to make any statements about the child's father or the circumstances of her conception. Lina's father was arrested on suspicion of rape and incest but released for lack of evidence.

In 1941, Lina Medina was examined by Paul Kosak, child psychologist at Columbia University (USA). Paul Kosak did a series of intelligence tests with her, in which he determined Lina's above-average intelligence and thus confirmed her age. Kosak also examined her son Gerardo, to whom he attested a good physical and mental development. He also noted that Lina, like the rest of the family, consider her son to be her little brother.

Lina Medina was later brought to Lima. Her son Gerardo stayed with his grandparents' family in Ticrapo and attended school there. From 1952 he lived in Lima and was in daily contact with his mother.

Lina Medina completed an education that enabled her to Gerardo Lozada, the doctor who had given birth to her first son. She later worked as a secretary in his practice.

Medina married Raul Jurado around 1970. The two of them have a son, whom Lina Medina gave birth to in 1972 at the age of 38. He lives in Mexico today.

Lina Medina now lives with her husband Raul Jurado in Chicago Chico (Little Chicago), an informal settlement near Lima . She doesn't give interviews.

Lina Medina's son Gerardo Alejandro Medina

Gerardo Medina grew up in the family of his grandparents in Ticrapo. He attended school and was known there as a very good student and french horn player. He didn't find out until the age of ten that Lina was his mother; until then he thought she was his sister.

In 1952 Gerardo gave an interview to a Peruvian journalist. He then came to Lima at the request of his mother and with the financial support of the doctor Gerardo Lozada, who financed his further school stay there.

Gerardo Medina died of a bone disease in 1979 at the age of 40; No associations were found between his mother's young age at the time of his birth and his illness.

literature

  • José Sandoval Paredes: Madre a los cinco años. Lima 2002
  • José Sandoval Paredes: Madre a los cinco años. El parto por Cesarea. In: Ginecol Obstet 48 (2002) pp. 127-131, excerpt from the 5th chapter of Madre a los cinco años
  • Edmundo Escomel: La Plus Jeune Mère du Monde. In: La Presse Médicale 47 (48) May 13, 1939, p. 744
  • Edmundo Escomel: La Plus Jeune Mère du Monde. In: La Presse Médicale 47 (43) May 31, 1939, p. 875
  • Edmundo Escomel: L'ovaire de Lina Medina, la Plus Jeune Mère du Monde. In: La Presse Médicale 47 (94), December 19, 1939, p. 1648
  • Luis Leon: Son of child mother wants to be doctor. In: Cedar Rapids Gazette. Associated Press, Oct. 30, 1955, p. 18
  • Five-and-Half-Year-old Mother and Baby Reported Doing Well , in: United Press, Los Angeles Times, May 16, 1939, p. 2
  • Physician Upholds Birth Possibility , in: Los Angeles Times, May 16, 1939, p. 2
  • US Health Official Returns from Peru , in: The New York Times, November 15, 1939, p. 9
  • Mother, 5, to Visit Here , in: The New York Times, Aug. 8, 1940, p. 21
  • Wife of Peruvian Envoy Arrives to Join Him Here , in: The New York Times, July 29, 1941, p. 8
  • The Mother Peru Forgot , in: Hamilton Spectator (Spectator Wire Services), 23 August 2002, p. B4

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  1. ↑ a b José Sandoval Paredes: Madre a los cinco años. El parto por Cesarea. In: Ginecol Obstet 48 (2002) pp. 127-131
  2. ↑ a b c d Six decades later, world's youngest mother awaits aid, in: Telegraph, 2002
  3. ↑ Elgar Brown: American scientists await US visit of youngest mother: Peruvian girl and baby will be exhibited. In: San Antonio Light / Chicago Evening American, July 11, 1939, p. 2A
  4. ↑ a b c d e Luis Leon: Son of child mother wants to be doctor. In: Cedar Rapids Gazette. Associated Press, Oct. 30, 1955, p. 18
  5. ↑ Young Mother And Her Son, in: Chicago Tribune, August 11, 1940
  6. ↑ Edmundo Escomel: L'ovaire de Lina Medina, la Plus Jeune Mère du Monde. In: La Presse Médicale 47 (94), December 19, 1939, p. 1648
  7. ↑ Youngest Mother, in: Snopes.com, Urban Legends Reference Pages, April 22, 2014
  8. ↑ Peru: Little Mother, in: Time Magazine, December 16, 1957
personal data
SURNAME Medina, Lina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Medina, Lina Vanessa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian woman giving birth
DATE OF BIRTH on September 23, 1933 or September 27, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Ticrapo , Peru