On May 31, 1939, an article in the medical journal Medical Journal caused an uproar. This article is written by Edmundo Edmundo, a prominent American obstetrician-gynecologist, obstetrician-gynecologist and president of the Association of Physicians. Written by Escomel while observing pregnant women in the northern region of Peru. The article was a medical report written by Edmund OEscomes, a Peruvian scientist and academician of the French Academy of Sciences. The report was accompanied by a picture of a pregnant woman named "LinaLina MarcelaMedina," who was only 5 and a half years old.
A pathologist said tissue samples and biopsies were taken during Lena's caesarean section and found that the mother of five had the characteristics of a mature woman.
Lena quickly became the youngest mother in the Guinness Book of World Records, giving birth to a baby in 5 years, 7 months and 21 days.
Nonsense
Lena was born on September 23, 1933 in a small village under the Peruvian Andes. She has loved painting and music since she was a child, and has a strong interest in film, but she has never found a suitable career for her. Later, she came to Santiago, the capital of Chile. From then on, she began her artistic career. Lena's family was ordinary, her mother Victoria Rossi was a housewife, her father, Tibrelo Medina, a silverware maker, and nine siblings.
When Lena was more than five years old, her belly began to bulge, and at first her parents didn't care. Soon after, she noticed a small lump around the umbilicus and abdominal wall with slight pain but no obvious conscious symptoms. At first, the family thought it was a pediatric disease and did not pay attention. Later, the swelling was so severe that her parents thought it was a tumor and took her to a hospital in the big city of Pisco, where they found Gerardo Lozada.
The doctor used a stethoscope and X-ray to find that there was no abnormality in Geredo's whole body.
It wasn't a tumor, it was a developing fetus, 7 months old.
"5 years pregnant, and then it is nonsense!" The famous American physicist Stephen Hawking once said such a sentence. This sentence makes many people doubt him: Is there really a 5-year-old pregnancy? How did Hawking explain this phenomenon? My parents thought Geredo, with his Ph.D. and reputation, was a joke! So they went to another expert, and the answer was the same. Meanwhile, Edmundo Escobar found Edmundo Escobar in Lima, Peru, and he read the letter and replied, "You are not mistaken!"
What happened to Lena?
After word spread in the hospital, the police knocked on the door of Lena's makeshift residence in Pisco. In the process, they discover a suspicious man. The man was seriously injured in a traffic accident. After the police investigation, it was found that the person had been sent to a mental hospital for treatment for a verbal altercation with someone. The father was treated as the first suspect, but after a week of questioning, police found no clues. There was also Lena's cousin, who had a mental disorder, more likely, but still without any clues.
Lena's parents
The police were counting on Lena again, but depending on the size of the fetus, she was not yet 5 years old at the time of the incident and did not know what she had gone through. In the presence of the mother, the police investigated, but found nothing. Police tested her psychologically and found that she was 7 months old, but it was still impossible to determine whether she was a boy or a girl. The police decided to send her to the hospital for an examination, which turned out to be no normal woman. In the end, nothing came to fruition, and no one knew who the father of the child was.
Why get pregnant?
What Geraldo wants to know is not the police's concern, but "Why would an immature child get pregnant?" Geledor argues that in his view, "pregnancy" is a mysterious and challenging process — if you can't understand his thoughts. Then you may not really know him. It's as if a gun without bullets can actually fire.
In addition, young children simply cannot provide adequate nutrition to the fetus, especially in the last two months of rapid fetal growth. In this case, if parents fail to meet their child's nutritional and caloric needs in a timely manner, complications such as preterm birth or neonatal asphyxia can result. Soon after Geraldeau was born, he developed severe diabetes. As a result, Geldo believes that Lena is unable to give birth and that the fetus could die at any time, or even be dragged down.
Lena and her children
"5-year-old pregnant women" was so sensational that the media came. Among the many speculations, "when a 5-year-old woman is pregnant, her husband does not agree to breastfeed her child" is one of the most concerned issues for the media and the public. Behind this lies an untold story. When the child was 8 months old, the mother, under pressure from the media and worried about the safety of her daughter's life, finally told Geredo the truth.
She said: "My son was diagnosed by the doctor as a "menstrual" pregnancy when he was 3 years old. There is an article on the website of the National Geographic Journal of the United States that from a medical point of view, "menstrual leave" is a symptom of a woman's sudden decrease in hormone levels in the body after entering puberty; rather than a normal physiological phenomenon. According to experts, most people believe that children from birth to the first month of birth is the most susceptible to illness period, and this period is also an important stage of rapid growth and development of the child's body, but studies have shown that if not treated in time, it will cause great harm to the child, especially for children younger than 3 years old, estrogen secretion is insufficient, it is easy to get sick. Simply put, Lena may have started developing at age 2 or younger. For comparison: The average age of American children on their first "menstrual leave" was 12 and a half years.
Lena's condition later turned out to be "precocious," a condition that many people have, but Lena was "very precocious" for reasons that remain unknown.
Children born 5 years of age
Fetal development issues are addressed, but childbirth remains a problem. During this time, my husband and I performed a caesarean section on a pelvic child named Chen Xiao. At the time, doctors thought it wasn't a good thing for the mother. But a fortuitous chance gave her hope. On Mother's Day, May 14, 1939, Lena was anesthetized and gave birth to a healthy baby boy weighing about 5.5 pounds.
Lena's parents named their grandson "Jeledore", based on Gerardo, who helped Lena give birth and confirmed the fact that Lena was pregnant.
He's my brother!
Her parents told Lena she was just sick and that Geredor was her brother, and Lena had believed this since she was a child. Geledo became her "nanny", taking him to the doctor every day, doing medical examinations, feeding him medicine, taking care of him and his pets... It wasn't until her condition worsened that she had to leave. When Lena grew up, for some reason she learned the truth, she gave up her studies, took on the responsibility of raising children, and went to a clinic to work as a secretary.
(Lena, son Geredor, Dr. Geredor)
When Lena grew up and married, she gave birth to her second son in 1972, leaving Geledo's younger brother 33 years younger than her. But he wasn't happy because he knew that his brother and sister had grown up and that their lives were well maintained... Today, the 88-year-old still looks like he was when he was young. Geredo's father, a retired teacher, and his mother, who worked in education for many years, both had great hopes for their children. Geredor was very sensible from an early age, loved to read and music, and achieved good results. Geredor died of illness in 1979 at the age of 40, but little is known about him.
It's all because Lena and her parents didn't benefit from the special circumstances. In China, parents have high expectations of their children as a healthy, intelligent, promising person. However, with the passage of time, this concept has been challenged. Yet the media and researchers have been shut out, and both generations of parents want to give their children and grandchildren a normal childhood.