# Young mothers **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 22, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-mothers/110372 "2002-05-22T21:15:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-mothers/110372/1 "2002-05-22T21:15:25Z")
Who was the youngest mom in history who: 1.Was taught that the baby was her offspring, not sibling? 2. Survived natural childbirth? 3.Breastfed for an appreciable time (at least a month)? ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-mothers/110372/2 "2002-05-23T05:59:11Z")
[http://www.sexualrecords.com/WSRprev.html](http://www.sexualrecords.com/WSRprev.html) > [@](#): > > **The youngest mother whose history is authenticated is Lina Medina, who delivered a 6½-pound boy by cesarean section in Lima, Peru in 1939, at an age of 5 years and 7 months. The child was raised as her brother and only discovered that Lina was his mother when he was 10.** Her kid wasn’t orginally told that she was his mother, but it doesn’t say she wasn’t told. Whether a five-year-old could understand the difference as we would understand it is debatable. It must have been obvious to her that the boy came out of her body, but it would be easy to confuse a 5-year-old that it could still be her sibling, not her child. A horrific experience for her anyway. > [@](#): > > \*\*The unresolved problem is who the father of the child is, as the little girl is too disoriented to give precise answers. \*\* From the same page: > [@](#): > > **According to Ripley’s Believe It or Not!—not the most reliable of sources, but lets try to keep an open mind—Mum-Zi, a member of Chief Akkiri’s harem on the island of Calabar, Nigeria, became a mother at 8 years and 4 months. Her daughter also delivered a child at age 8, making Mum-Zi a grandmother—at age 17.** / And also from the same page, totally OT but fascinating nonetheless. > [@](#): > > **Oldest Chastity Belt > The oldest model in existence, displayed today in the armory collection of Venice’s Doges’ Palace, dates back to 1388 and belonged to Francesco II, ruler of Padua. Known as the Tyrant of Padua, he required his wife to wear it constantly in his absence. Padded with leather, the belt covers the entire pubic region and is equipped with razor-sharp teeth at each orifice to discourage exploration by so much as a fingertip. Francesco, however, liked to tempt fate by violating his wife through the girdle.**