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BY AMY REYNOLDS

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Last month, an unnamed 10-year old from Colombia gave birth to a healthy baby girl after arriving at a hospital with “enormous pain” due to contractions.

As crazy as it sounds, this young girl does not even come close to being the youngest mother ever.

The young girl gave birth to her five-pound daughter by cesarean section, said ABC News. According to experts, a C-Section delivery is not unusual for young mothers.

“The baby’s head needs to come through a bony outlet. But in a young girl, the pelvis may not be ready or big enough to deliver a baby,” said Dr. Kimberly Gecsi, an OB/GYN at UH Case Medical Center in Cleveland.

However, the youngest girl to ever give birth, Lina Medina, was just five years old in 1939 from Peru, Wikipedia reports.

Medina was able to conceive a child at such a young age due to a condition called precocious puberty, which causes the breasts to develop at age 4 and fully-functioning sexual organs at age 5. The father of the baby boy was never able to be identified.

“These girls are not ready to be pregnant. Their bodies are not mature,” said Dr. Frederick Gonzalez, a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at NYU Langone Medical Center. “They may be able to get pregnant, but being able to have a baby is a whole other situation.”