Mexico City, November 15: A Mexican girl has become a mother at the age of just 10.
The youngster arrived at a hospital in the city of Puebla, suffering from life-threatening complications in her 31-week pregnancy, including seizures.
She gave birth by C-section to a boy weighing 3.3 lb at the Women’s Hospital in the city, 60 miles south-east of Mexico City.
Her premature son is now said to be in intensive care following a bout of pneumonia, but officials said his young mother visits the baby every day to breastfeed.
The hospital revealed the baby boy is in a good condition considering his premature birth and the mother is recovering well after first coming to the centre on October 22.
However, hospital director Rogelio Gonzalez said that the birth had been reported to the state’s Attorney General’s Office, which is investigating whether the girl could have been raped and who the father is.
Young moms
>> The youngest mother ever is Lina Medina, who was five-years-old when she gave birth to a baby boy in 1939. Even though there were claims that her father raped her, he was let go as there wasn’t sufficient evidence.
>> Yelizaveta, a resident of the Soviet Union became a mother at the age of six when her grandfather, a sailor raped her.
>> Mum-Zi, a eight-year-old gave birth to a daughter.
>> In 2010, Elena Chiritescu from Span became a mom at the age of 10.
-Agencies