In the last year of the third decade in the twentieth century, history was made. The 5-year-old child, Lina, gave birth to a healthy baby boy. While the circumstances of the girl’s birth were ince-tuous, the fact that the child from the remote village was able to become pregnant and give birth was absolutely miraculous.
Because no one could understand the circumstances of the birth, the child’s mother did not even recognize the pregnancy despite Lina’s growing belly because it was just not something anyone had ever considered. Instead, the mother thought that the growing baby bump was a tumor or a cyst or something.
But when the girl was taken to the pediatricians, they were stunned, horrified. The doctors were horrified that someone had impregnated the 5-year-old girl.
While the girl’s pregnancy case was shocking and horrifying, it was also a medical miracle. Pediatric endocrinologists were left speechless. But it has since been found that about one in every 10,000 children can develop what has been called precocious puberty. T
his means that the child’s body reaches se-ual maturity before turning eight. While boys can develop the condition, those that have it are ten times more likely to be female than male. Read the fuII story here▶