# What's the youngest medically documented human pregnancy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 3, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430 "2004-07-03T23:41:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/1 "2004-07-03T23:41:24Z")
Also, what is the youngest age that a girl has given successfully given birth? ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/2 "2004-07-04T00:19:58Z")
I think the youngest would have to be [Lina Medina](http://www.sexualrecords.com/WSRprev.html), who gave birth when she was 5 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/3 "2004-07-04T00:30:28Z")
What an interesting link, **montro** – especially the part about the condom that was 12 feet in diameter. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/4 "2004-07-04T00:31:36Z")
Sorry for misspelling your name, **monstro**. I know better. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/5 "2004-07-04T00:38:13Z")
It’s annoying that the link doesn’t identify who impregnated her. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/6 "2004-07-04T00:45:35Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s annoying that the link doesn’t identify who impregnated her Hopefully it was someone who got the shit beaten out of him. Who would have sex with a four year old!? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/7 "2004-07-04T02:28:06Z")
Prob a case of incest or something ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/8 "2004-07-04T02:43:20Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > It’s annoying that the link doesn’t identify who impregnated her. There’s a [secondary link](http://www.sexualrecords.com/youngbirtheng.html) on the page with more details, and in that article they say they didn’t know who the father was because the girl was “disoriented”. I too am annoyed at this, tho. They make it out like it was no big deal as to who was having sex with a 4-year-old. Weee-eeeeird stuff, man. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/9 "2004-07-04T03:13:55Z")
Before this thread turns into total gibberish, would someone try to find a site/cite that can back up what the original cite claimed? Give me something other than a website that claims something. Links, medical references, anything. Don’t go off the deep end on this first offering. It’s most likely not verifiable, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/10 "2004-07-04T03:30:12Z")
Here’s a thread that showed up earlier on the snopes board: [http://www.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/ubb/get\_topic/f/35/t/001156.html](http://www.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/ubb/get_topic/f/35/t/001156.html) Also included inside is yet another interesting link. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/11 "2004-07-04T03:31:34Z")
I am not going to look for links cause im lazy that way but it is a true story the girl was from Peru I believe, and I think she had her first period when she was 2 or something and they examined her after birth and she had fully matured sexual organs. The girl is still alive although I think the son died some time in his sixties the mother was in the news sometime in the last 2 or 3 years because she was angry at the government for never giving her money or something she was promised when she had the child. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/12 "2004-07-04T07:58:07Z")
**from monstro’s link** > [@](#): > > … Most Offspring > Male > The last Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, Mulai Ismail (1646-1727), a ruthless tyrant, begat numerous children through the imperial concubines. In 1703 he had at least 342 daughters and 525 sons; … > > Female > According to Guinness World Records 2001, the highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782) of Shuya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. 67 of them survived infancy. … rather productive times… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/13 "2004-07-04T12:16:16Z")
> [@](#): > > **Youngest Father** > Sean Stewart, of Sharnbrook, England, became the father of a healthy 6 lb. baby boy on January 20, 1998, at age 12. That’s it? I was expecting younger. ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/14 "2004-07-04T13:08:13Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Who would have sex with a four year old!? I swear to God that she _said_ she was _18!_ ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/15 "2004-07-04T15:29:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Female > According to Guinness World Records 2001, the highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782) of Shuya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. 67 of them survived infancy. I’ve always wondered how reliably this figure is. It’s interesting that the name of such a fecund woman has been lost to history and remembered only as “first wife of.” It’s also interesting that she had no single confinements. ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/16 "2004-07-04T18:36:00Z")
I’m not sure if that sexual records website is the most reliable of sources. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/17 "2004-07-04T19:18:08Z")
I did some researching on [Google Groups](http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22Lina+Medina%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&scoring=d&selm=36B7D857.32AE%40pacific.net.sg&rnum=73&filter=0) . This first popped up on the web in 1998 from [parentsplace.com](http://parentsplace.com): > [@](#): > > " The youngest mother whose history is authenicated is Lina Medina, who was delivered by cesarean section in Lima, Peru in 1939. Although her exact age is disputable, she was around 5 years of age. This woman told her story to a writer from the **National Inquirer** in 1980. The child was raised as her brother… Girls such as this suffer from precocious puberty which is characterized by premature secondary sex characteristic development and in a small percentage ovarian and uterine development appropriate for fertility also occurs. The girls are generally victims of abuse and incest. " I checked Factiva and Reuters ran an article on it in August of 2002. I can’t copy the article, but [this website](http://youngest_mother.tripod.com/) plagiarised most of it and didn’t make anything up. I guess its true. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/18 "2004-07-04T19:33:56Z")
> [@Earl Snake-Hips Tucker](#): > > I’ve always wondered how reliably this figure is. It’s interesting that the name of such a fecund woman has been lost to history and remembered only as “first wife of.” It’s also interesting that she had no single confinements. According to a 1988 column in The Boston Globe her name is “Mrs. Vassilyev” 😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/19 "2004-07-04T19:41:39Z")
Gagghhh!! I’ve just spent hours reading original articles from US newspapers in 1939-40. The basics are true. I don’t have much to add at this point, mainly because I’ve accumulated _too much_ info. I’ll try to sort it out tomorrow. My head hurts today. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430/20 "2004-07-04T19:44:29Z")
Ok **Samclem** that’s certainly a one up on me 🙂 Where were you reading these newspapers btw? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-youngest-medically-documented-human-pregnancy/253430.md?page=2)