List of youngest birth mothers

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This is generally a list of the youngest known birth mothers younger than 12 years of age.
Three of the 12 entries for age 9 or younger are for mothers in Peru. Two of these cases are the
result of rape by cousins. For entries for mothers aged 10 or 11, the United States is the most
common location.

Contents
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 1 Youngest mothers
 2 Youngest grandmothers
 3 Youngest great-grandmothers
 4 See also
 5 References
 6 External links

Youngest mothers
Mother Age of mother Father Location Notes
Lina Medina 5 years, 7 months, 21 days Unknown Lima, Peru Entering
precocious puberty
at the age of 5;
Medina gave birth
to a 2.0 kg (4.4 lb)
son, named
Gerardo, by
caesarean section
on May 14, 1939
in Lima. Her
parents, who
assumed their
daughter had a
tumor, took her to
a hospital, where
she was
determined to be
seven months
 pregnant. Although
Medina's father
was arrested on
suspicion of child
sexual abuse, he
was later released
due to lack of
evidence, and the
identity of who
impregnated
Medina was never
uncovered.[1][2]
6-year old girl Liza
gave birth
naturally in 1934
Liza's in Ukraine after
Liza 6 years Ukraine
grandfather being impregnated
by her grandfather.
Baby was stillborn.
[3]

Mum-Zi was
member of Chief
Akkiri's harem on
the island of
Calabar, Nigeria.
Calabar,
Mum-Zi 8 years, 4 months Unknown Her daughter also
Nigeria
gave birth
extremely early,
making Mum-Zi a
grandmother at age
17.[4]
Unidentified 8 years, 11 months Unknown Huanuco, A girl from
Peru Huanuco, Peru,
gave birth to a
baby weighing
2 kg (4.4 lb) by
caesarean section
at a hospital in
Lima in December
2006. Her ninth
birthday occurred a
couple of days
later. She became
pregnant after
being raped by her
cousins.
 Approximately 2
of them.[5][6]
Girl gave birth to a
healthy boy
Changchun, weighing 6 lb
Unidentified 9 years Unknown
China (2.7 kg) in
Changchun, China,
February 2010.[7]
Trujillo's 22-
year-old
Hilda Trujillo gave
cousin, who
birth to a girl
was staying
weighing over 6 lb
in her
Hilda Trujillo 9 years Lima, Peru (2.7 kg) at a
family's one-
hospital in Lima,
room house
Peru in December
at the time,
1957.[8]
was arrested
for rape.
Janmuk's 27-
year-old Wanwisa Janmuk
husband; gave birth in
Thai law February 2001 to a
Phetchabun,
Wanwisa Janmuk 9 years allows for girl at a hospital in
Thailand
the arranged Phetchabun, a
marriages of northern province
minors by of Thailand.[9]
their parents.
A Singaporean girl
gave birth to a boy
in 2004 after being
impregnated by a
fellow student at
her school. Her
mother initially
thought she had a
Unidentified 9 years Unknown Singapore urinary tract
infection, but,
upon taking her to
the doctor, learned
she was already six
months pregnant.
The baby was
placed for
adoption.[10]
Unidentified 9 years The girl was Butare, A girl gave birth to
raped by the Rwanda a baby boy by
 caesarean section
at a hospital in
Butare, Rwanda, in
family's December 2005.
domestic The child
servant. underwent breast
development at age
six and menarche
at age eight.[11]
A girl of the
Apurinã, an
indigenous people
from the Amazon
Rainforest in
Brazil, gave birth
to a baby girl
Unidentified 9 years Unknown Brazil weighing 2.2 kg
(4.8 lb) by
caesarean section
at a hospital in
Manaus in July
2006. Police are
investigating the
case.[12][13]
A 9-year-old girl
from Penang in
Malaysia gave
A 14-year- Penang, birth to a healthy
Unidentified 9 years
old neighbor Malaysia baby boy in May,
2010. No police
report was made
by the parents.[14]
Sally Deweese 10 years, 13 days Unknown Butler 1834: Sally
County, Deweese of Butler
Kentucky, County, Kentucky,
United States was reported by
Dr. D. Rowlett to
have delivered a
baby girl weighing
7.75 pounds (3.52
kg) on April 20,
1834. Deweese
allegedly
developed breasts
within weeks of
birth and began
 menstruating at 12
months.[15]
1979: A girl aged
10 gave birth to
twins six weeks
premature, both
Indianapolis, weighing 3 lb 6 oz,
Unidentified 10 years Unknown Indiana, at a hospital in
United States Indianapolis. She
is thought to have
been the youngest
mother of twins at
the time.[16]
2000: A girl from
Bolivia gave birth
to a baby girl
weighing
A 28-year-
2.5 kilograms (5.5
old was Mother from
lb) by caesarean
Unidentified 10 years arrested on a Bolivia, birth
section at a
charge of in Argentina
hospital in Parque
rape.
Patricios, Buenos
Aires, Argentina
on September 25,
2007.[17][18]
2005: A bolivian
girl living in
Calama, Chile,
gave birth to a
baby boy by
caesarean section
at a hospital in
Antofagasta, Chile
The girl's Bolivian girl,
Unidentified 10 years on April 13, 2005.
father birth in Chile
The child became
pregnant after
having been raped
by her father at age
nine. Her parents,
who both came
from Bolivia, were
jailed.[19][20][21]
Unidentified 10 years Unknown Switzerland 2005: A girl gave
birth to a baby girl
at a hospital in
Sion, Switzerland
 in August 2005.
She had
immigrated to
Switzerland from
Cameroon with her
siblings when her
mother married a
Swiss citizen. A
68-year-old man
who was in a
relationship with
the mother
admitted to having
molested the girl
but a DNA test
found that he was
not the father of
the girl's child.[22]
[23][24]

The girl was

raped by
then-26-
year-old
William
Edward
2006: A girl in
Ronca.
Abbeville, South
Ronca
Abbeville, Carolina gave birth
admitted to
South by caesarean
Unidentified 10 years having
Carolina, section in 2006.
molested the
United States The baby was
girl over a
placed for
two year
adoption.[25]
period and
was
sentenced to
25 years in
prison as a
result.
Unidentified 10 years The father Belgium 2006: A girl from
was a then- Charleroi, Belgium
13-year-old gave birth in 2006.
boy who After the child
attended the began gaining
same school weight, her mother
as the girl. put her on a diet,
but when the girl
 visited a doctor, it
was discovered
that she was nine
months pregnant.
News of the birth
did not become
publicly known
until 2007.[26]
The girl
became
pregnant 2006: A girl from
after being Jaral del Progreso,
raped by a Guanajuato,
Jaral del
47-year-old Mexico gave birth
Progreso,
Unidentified 10 years neighbour, naturally to a baby
Guanajuato,
who was girl weighing
Mexico
sentenced to 2.3 kilograms (5.1
11 years, 6 lb) on April 3,
months in 2006.[27][28]
prison for the
crime.
Her
pregnancy
was the
result of a
rape 2007: A girl from
committed San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo
by the 65- Cacaotepec,
Cacaotepec,
Unidentified 10 years year-old Oaxaca, Mexico
Oaxaca,
landlord of gave birth to a
Mexico
the house baby boy on July
which her 2, 2007.[29][30][31][32]
parents
rented. The
man was
jailed.
37-year-old 2008: In St.
Guadalupe Anthony, Idaho,
Gutierrez- St. Anthony, U.S., a girl gave
Unidentified 10 years Juarez was Idaho, birth to a 6 pounds
jailed on one United States (2.7 kg) baby at
felony count Madison Memorial
of rape. Hospital.[33]
Unidentified 10 years Also a Jerez de la 2010: In Jerez de
minor. Frontera, la Frontera, Spain,
Spain a girl of Romanian
 origin gave birth to
a baby. The mother
of the girl claimed
that giving birth at
such a young age
was common in
Romania.[34]
1992: 11-year old
Italian girl Maria
Tizziano gave birth
to her first son.
The next year the
second came along
and she was still
only 14 when the
Vincenzo
third boy was born.
Castro,
Adrano, Maria, her
Maria Tizziano 11 years Maria's 18-
Sicily boyfriend and a
year-old
father of her sons
boyfriend
Vincenzo Castro
and their three sons
all lived with her
mother (who
became a
grandmother at 29)
in a two-room flat.
[35]

The girl was

raped by a
2002: A girl from
75-year-old Bridgeport,
Bridgeport,
Unidentified 11 years man, who Connecticut,
Connecticut gave
was arrested United States
birth.[36]
on April 17,
2002.
Bogdana Korenkova 11 years The girl, who Kharkov, 2004: A girl gave
is currently Ukraine birth to a baby boy
the youngest weighing 8.4 lb
mother in (3.8 kg) at a
Ukraine, is hospital in
suspected to Kharkov, Ukraine
have been in January 2004.[37]
impregnated
by a 26-year-
old
neighbour,
who fled in
 the fear of
facing
prosecution.
2005: Valentina
Valentina's
Moscow, gave birth to a boy
Valentina 11 years 14-year-old
Russia in Moscow,
boyfriend.
Russia.[38]
2006: A girl of
Mother from African origin
Africa, Birth gave birth to a
A 37-year-
in London, baby boy at a
Unidentified 11 years old man was
England, hospital in west
arrested.
United London, United
Kingdom Kingdom on May
5, 2006.[39]
2007: A girl from
Valhalla Park,
Cape Town, South
An elderly Africa gave birth
security to a baby boy on
guard was Cape Town, July 12, 2007.She
Unidentified 11 years
arrested in South Africa agreed to give the
connection baby up for
with rape. adoption on the
condition she
could visit him
once a month.[40]
The girl's
mother's
boyfriend,
Michael 2007: A girl from
Chaffer, was Lockland, Ohio,
sentenced to Lockland, gave birth to a
Unidentified 11 years 28 years in Ohio, United child on November
prison on States 4, 2007. The baby
charges of is under the care of
felonious relatives.[41]
assault and
two counts
of rape.
Kordeza Zhelyazkova 11 years Nineteen- Sliven, 2009: Kordeza
year-old Bulgaria Zhelyazkova, a
husband Roma school girl,
Jeliazko gave birth to a
Dimitrov, healthy daughter in
with whom Bulgaria on her
 the child was
allegedly
conceived a
week after
meeting,
wedding day.[42][43]
now faces up
to six years
in jail for
having sex
with a minor.
2010: A girl in
Texas,USA gave
birth without
complications to a
healthy baby boy.
Texas, "My daughter and
Unidentified 11 years Unknown
United States (her) baby are fine,
and the baby is
absolutely
beautiful," said the
mother of the 11-
year-old girl.[44]
1972: A girl gave
birth at the age of
The father Aylesbury, 11 years, 10
was the England, months at Royal
Unidentified 11 years, 10 months
young girl's United Buckinghamshire
stepbrother. Kingdom Hospital in
Aylesbury,
England.[45]

Youngest grandmothers
Age as
Grandmother Age as mother Location Notes
grandmother
She is said to be
Mum-Zi 8 years, 4 Calabar, the world's
17 years
(mentioned above) months Nigeria youngest
grandmother.[4]
Unidentified 25 years 13 years Adrano, A 25-year-old
Sicily woman from
Adrano became
a grandmother
after her 12-
year-old
 daughter gave
birth to a baby
boy c. 1997.[35]
A woman in
Britain gave
birth to a
daughter at 14,
and her
Rotherham, daughter gave
Unidentified 26 years 14 years South birth to a child
Yorkshire at 12 years in
1999. The
woman is said
to be Britain's
youngest
grandmother.[46]
Her 11-year-old
Larisa daughter,
Kharkov,
(daughter Bogdana Korenkova 28 years 17 years Bogdana, gave
Ukraine
mentioned above) birth to a child
in 2004.[47]
She was
considered as
the youngest
grandmother in
Queensland,
Kasey Leach 28 years ? Australia in
Australia
2008, while
comparing
herself to the
Brady Bunch.[48]
Her 14-year-old
Naples, daughter, Anna,
Julia Elia 29 years 15 years
Italy gave birth to a
child in 2010.[49]
Maria was only
29 years old
Maria when her 11-
Adrano,
(daughter Maria Tizziano 29 years 18 years year-old
Sicily
mentioned above) daughter gave
birth to her first
son in 1992.[35]
Flora M. Davis 29 years 13 years Waverly, Flora M. Davis
Iowa got married at
12 gave birth to
her first child at
13. At 15 her
 daughter got
married and
gave birth to her
daughter a year
after, making
Flora a
grandmother at
age 29 and
Flora's mother a
great-
grandmother at
age 52 in 1903.
[50]

Leticia Magee,
29, who gave
birth to daughter
at 13, became
probably the
youngest
Leticia Magee 29 years 13 years USA grandmother in
USA when her
16-year-old
daughter, Celia,
gave birth to a
son Russell in
2007.[51]
Became a
mother at 16 in
May 1995, her
daughter
Trine Andreassen 29 years 16 years Norway became a
mother at 13 in
September
2008.[52][unreliable
source?]

Youngest great-grandmothers
Age as great-
Great-grandmother Age as mother Location Notes
grandmother
Unidentified 41 years 14 years Australia An Australian
woman had a child
at 14, and her
daughter had a
baby at 13, making
 her a grandmother
at 27, and then her
granddaughter had
a child at 14. The
woman is the
youngest great-
grandmother.[citation
needed]

Dolores Davis is
said to be in the
Guinness Book of
Dolores Davis 44 years ? ? Records as the
world's youngest
great grandmother
at the age of 44.[53]
Edna Bertonelle
got married at 14,
and her first child,
a daughter, married
at the same age. At
31 She was a
Paris, grandmother, and
Edna Bertonelle 48 years 15 years
France her first grandson
got married at the
age of 17. At 48
Edna Bertonelle
became a great-
grandmother in c.
1909.[54]
Stella Boyd
became a great-
grandmother at the
age of 49 in May
Maybole,
Stella Boyd 49 years ? 1997 when her 13-
Ayrshire
year-old
granddaughter
gave birth to her
son.[55]
Jean McGahey 52 years 16 years England Mrs McGahey
gave birth to her
first child at the
age of 16 and
became a
grandmother at 33.
Her first
granddaughter
 gave birth at age
19, making Mrs
McGahey a great-
grandmother at age
52 in 2000.[55]
Her daughter gave
birth at 13 and her
granddaughter
Mrs. Sarah Bartholomew
Waverly, became a mother at
(daughter Flora M. Davis 52 years 22 years
Iowa 16, making Mrs.
mentioned above)
Bartholomew a
great-grandmother
at 52 in 1903.[50]