Next time you see a pregnant 17 years-old girl and you start thinking how young she is, remember that she is far older than all of the 11 youngest birth mothers of all time from our list.
Unlike the older times, when girls and boys didn’t become sexually active until their wedding night, nowadays almost every person changes at least a few sexual partners before they find the one to spend their whole life with. Although they are familiar with all sorts of birth controls, they usually neglect those ‘safe-sex’ rules after a few shots. In most cases, nine months later, they end up preparing cribs and waiting for the due date to deliver their first baby.
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According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US teen birth rate has luckily decreased from 26.5 to 24.2 in just one year. But this still isn’t enough, especially among Hispanic and non-Hispanic black teens, where the birth rate is still two times bigger than among the non-Hispanic white teens.
An unwritten rule says that there is a specific life circle that everyone has to pass during the life. The first thing on that path is, of course, the primary school, then goes high school, and then college. As you can see, the first part is basically all about the education. After that, you are prepared to make your own life decisions. This means that the first thing you should do after you graduate from college is to find a suitable job and then get married and start your own family. Everything beyond is just taking care of your children, going to retire, take care of your grandchildren for a while and die. But what happens if you miss some step? What if you, for example, decide you don’t want to go to college? We don’t judge since everyone is capable of making their own life decisions, but there are people who are not that flexible about it and they could say that you are making the worse decision of your life.
On the other hand, there are more women nowadays who are chasing their careers without planning any children at all. According to the Wall Street Journal, population growth is slowing down since, even though it has increased a bit with Hispanic women, it decreases every year with white women. Also, the number of the unplanned pregnancies has risen. According to the CDC, the number of unintended pregnancies went to 45%, where 27% were untimed pregnancies and 18% unwanted which lead to increased number of abortions.
One of the biggest difficulties young mothers have after unplanned pregnancy is finding a job. As children require a lot of attention and care, they are very unlikely to have some time for themselves, and they can usually forget about finding some job for the next few years since their working hours as a mom count 24 hours per a day, without any vacation or a day off. But some manage to reorganize their lives by finding one of the 7 Flexible Jobs for Stay-at-Home Moms, at least to have some income and gain the working habit.
This ‘’skipping-circle-parts’’ may be strange to some traditionally raised people and you may find yourself being the center of the attention at some family dinners or celebrations. If you find this hard to handle, imagine how hard it would be if you skipped more important steps, like the primary education part. This could happen as well, and we have even 11 proofs of that.
The survey we made by consulting several official and non-official sites gave us enough information to compile the list of 11 youngest birth mothers of all time, especially sites such as MotherHow and Viola and believe it or not, none of them was older than 9 when she held her baby for the first time. So next time your great-aunt starts picking on you for your way of life be free to take out your phone and shut her mouth at least until dessert. We left out unidentified young mothers as well as the ones that delivered stillborn and rated the ones on the list according to the age of delivery. So let’s start counting to 11.
11. Wanwisa Janmuk (Age 9)
Believe it or not, the age of delivering her baby isn’t the only strange thing about this girl. The other strange thing is also related to her age but in a different sense. She wasn’t raped or had unwanted intercourse, but willing intercourse with her 26-years-old husband. They got married a year before they welcomed their baby girl to the world, which also made her the youngest Asian mother.
10. Venesia Xoagus (Age 9)
In 1980 whole Namibia stayed in shock after they’ve heard the news about nine-years-old child gave birth to her own child. But no matter what others had to say about this case, Venesia managed to deliver a healthy 6.6lb baby boy with the Cesarean section. Baby’s father was never identified.
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9. Nuvia V. T (Age 9)
Nine months after she has been raped by two of her cousins, one of them was 17 and the other 28 at that moment, Nuvia, the next one in our list of youngest birth mothers of all time, gave birth to a healthy boy on her ninth birthday. After the analysis, it was discovered that the father of her 5.5lb son was the older cousin who was arrested after the results came.
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8. María Eulalia Allende (Age 9)
Just two months before María Eulalia Allende that ranks 8th in our list of youngest birth mothers of all time gave birth to their son, Ernesto Allende, her older cousin who happened to be the baby’s father disappeared. But despite that, Maria has delivered healthy 7lb baby boy with no problem at all.
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7. Maria Eliane Jesus Mascarenhas (Age 9)
After her mother had died while delivering her, Maria was adopted by elderly farm workers. After a while, she started a sexual relationship with their grandson, that later resulted in pregnancy. Maria was reluctant on the delivery day and had to be promised dolls to play with, just to calm her down before the Cesarean section. Her cousin by adoption was willing to marry her and their family was supportive enough and helped them raising their daughter. And now, let’s see what else we have in our list of youngest birth mothers of all time.
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6. Maria (Age 9)
After being repeatedly raped by her stepfather since the age of 6, she gave birth to a healthy boy by a Cesarean section in 2003. After the hospital, both Maria and her son were transferred to a home for unwed mothers. Her mother refused to leave her husband who was accused of the assault of her daughter but remained determined to get custody over her daughter.
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5. Leyla Mafi (Age 9)
Leyla Mafi is definitely one of the strangest cases in our list of 11 youngest birth mothers of all time. She was prostituted by her own mother since the age of 8 and her clients were, among all, her own cousins. 11 years later, she was diagnosed with a mental disorder, that made her remain at the mental age of 8. At the age of 9, she gave birth to her first child and got twins 5 years later. As all of this wasn’t bizarre enough, she was sentenced to death at the age of 19 for debauchery, incest, and illegitimate motherhood. After the defense had made a statement, her sentence was reduced to public beating and prison.
4. Dafne (Age 9)
We are continuing our list of youngest birth mothers of all time with Dafne that is one of the 11 children in her home, and she brought one more child in the family in 2013 by delivering it with the Cesarean section. Unfortunately, after a short time, she had to be sterilized for medical reasons. Her 17-years-old boyfriend who was assumed to be the baby’s father may be charged for having sexual intercourse with such a young girl. On the other hand, there are still assumptions that the real father of Dafne’s baby is her 44-years-old stepfather.
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3. Zulma Guadalupe Morales (Age 8)
This 8-years-old girl got pregnant after she had been raped by her own uncle. Despite her parent’s effort to keep her pregnancy as a secret because of the shameless way she got impregnate, news reporters managed to reveal the truth and share it with the rest of the world. But the most important thing is that Zulma that ranks 3rd in our list of youngest birth mothers of all time managed to deliver healthy 7.04lb son by Cesarean section without any medical issue after all.
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2. Hilda Trujillo (Age 8)
This brave girl gave birth to a 6lb baby girl without any anesthetics and after 5 hours of labor. It was later discovered that she was impregnated by her 22-years-old orphaned cousin who was staying with her family in a one-room shack.
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1. Lina Medina (Age 5)
Of course, our list of 11 youngest birth mothers of all time couldn’t be rounded up properly without mentioning the most famous and definitely the youngest mother ever, Lina Medina.
Lina was born with the rare condition called precocious puberty. She had her first menstrual cycle at the age of two and her breasts were fully developed by the age of 4. After she was received in the hospital because of the strong abdominal pain and the big abdomen, doctors assumed that she had a large tumor, but after a few tests, it was discovered that in just two months, this toddler would become a mom. Her father was immediately accused of this pregnancy, but due to the lack of evidence, he was soon released and Lina never revealed who the father really was. Two months later, she delivered healthy baby boy by Cesarean section. The boy weighed 6lb and by the time he was 10, he believed Lina was his older sister. After he was teased by kids in school for that, the truth has been revealed. The doctor who performed her C-section helped with her education during the years, and later hired her as a secretary in his clinic, but remained to help her son get the proper education. Lima’s son, Gerardo, died at the age of 40 from the bone disease, just 7 years after his mother married and gave birth to his little brother.
