# Is it possible to get pregnant at five? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 8, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960 "2006-01-08T02:10:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GutenTagenhopclop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/48db29/32.png) [@GutenTagenhopclop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GutenTagenhopclop)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/1 "2006-01-08T02:10:25Z")
\ Five\ I’ve always wondered if that’s possible. Could a girl get pregnant at five? She’d have to go through puberty at like three, and then have sex. Although, it is possible to get pregnant before one gets their period. But that’s usually right before one gets her period. So I do not know. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/2 "2006-01-08T02:12:12Z")
Your [link](http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp) , mon ami. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GutenTagenhopclop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/48db29/32.png) [@GutenTagenhopclop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GutenTagenhopclop)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/3 "2006-01-08T02:22:20Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > Your [link](http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp) , mon ami. 🙂 Danke ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/4 "2006-01-08T03:18:56Z")
[Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=264721&highlight=lina+medina) a previous thread on the subject we did in 2004. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/5 "2006-01-08T04:15:40Z")
I think we can safely say that situations like Lina’s would be pretty rare (ie, a five year old getting pregnant, not small children being molested, that is!) ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/6 "2006-01-08T07:42:23Z")
**Moderator’s Note:** Moving to General Questions. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/7 "2006-01-08T08:20:44Z")
> [@GutenTagenhopclop](#): > > \ Five\ > I’ve always wondered if that’s possible. Could a girl get pregnant at five? > She’d have to go through puberty at like three, and then have sex. Why would a girl pregnant at five have to go through puberty at three? Why not go through puberty at five? (Note that I’m assuming that by puberty you mean the release of ova; obviously this is just one part of puberty and may happen before or after the other signs are completed or even beginning.) ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/8 "2006-01-08T18:25:07Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > Why would a girl pregnant at five have to go through puberty at three? Why not go through puberty at five? (Note that I’m assuming that by puberty you mean the release of ova; obviously this is just one part of puberty and may happen before or after the other signs are completed or even beginning.) If I’m reading the Snopes article right, she had her first menstrual period at _eight months old._ > [@](#): > > . In addition to amending the age at which Lina began menstruating (to an incredible 8 months) . . . . > > \ > > Escomel posited that the reason behind her precocious fertility could not lie in the ovaries themselves but must have stemmed from an extraordinary hormonal disorder of pituitary origin. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/9 "2006-01-08T18:40:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Is it possible to get pregnant at five? I think it’s possible to become pregnant at any hour. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/10 "2006-01-08T19:46:34Z")
I wanna know why some guy would want to have sex with a five-year old. ---
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/11 "2006-01-08T21:10:08Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I wanna know why some guy would want to have sex with a five-year old. No, you don’t. You really, really don’t want to know that. I’ve had guys explain that to me (I used to investigate sex crimes against children). It is just to bizarre to hear. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/12 "2006-01-09T03:50:26Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I wanna know why some guy would want to have sex with a five-year old. . . . Perhaps, because she does not really understand that saying “No!” is an option?\* IOW, the man has **all** the power in the relationship (which is not the case with any adult woman, however meek she might be). But then, the same is true of a sheep; and you’ll get in much less trouble if you’re caught. Must be something else, then . . . \*Yes, I know, 5-year-olds say “No!” all the time – but just on general principles; they don’t really expect it to make a difference. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/13 "2006-01-09T06:13:52Z")
Maybe this was an extremely rare condition of _fetus in fetu_ a condition where a twin literally forms around the other. The condition is almost always that of the “inside” baby being the unborn identical twin, but usually the twin is a misshapen blob of tissue with semi-recognizable features such as fingernails and hair. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/14 "2006-01-09T07:20:32Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > I think it’s possible to become pregnant at any hour. 😉 Dang it. I was going to say, “If everyone gets home from work early enough, sure!” ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-pregnant-at-five/338960/15 "2006-01-09T21:12:35Z")
> [@Enola Straight](#): > > Maybe this was an extremely rare condition of _fetus in fetu_ a condition where a twin literally forms around the other. > > The condition is almost always that of the “inside” baby being the unborn identical twin, but usually the twin is a misshapen blob of tissue with semi-recognizable features such as fingernails and hair. The condition exists but I would be dumbfounded if this were an example being as I have never heard of one of these twins being born from the second twin, not to mention five years later. As an aside, I have an aunt who had her ovaries removed. She was very surprised to be pregnant a few years later. Apparently she had one of these partially formed twins within her. When her own ovaries were removed one of the twin’s developed and took it’s place. Strange stuff.