11-Year-Old Mom Gives Birth [PHOTO]
Posted February 5th, 2010 by fashiongossip
The 11-year-old’s baby
An 11-year-old girl gave birth recently in the Northeastern portion of the country.
Her identity is being kept a secret for obvious reasons.
The girl’s mother released the following statement: “My daughter and baby are fine, and the baby is absolutely beautiful.”
Ok, doesn’t anyone else think it’s a little weird (and frightening) that they let this girl carry the child to full term? This pregnancy should have been terminated. How can an 11-year-old even fathom being a mother? They can’t!
And as for the physical side of things, there is so much damage that can be done to such a young body. An 11-year-old is not equipped to have a baby.
A leading high-risk obstetrician said the damage to the 11-year-old’s body could be permanent. “Her bones aren’t quite fused, and once you expose a child this young to high amounts of progesterone and especially estrogen, there is controversy that it could halt her growth.”
There are other factors as well, he noted.
— The pelvis is not defined for natural childbirth;
— The vagina could sustain injury during a natural birth;
— The patient is at high-risk for pre-eclampsia, which is high blood pressure and protein in the urine and could lead to convulsions and/or multi-system organ failure;
— A higher risk of pre-term labor and delivery, which would mean the baby’s size would be compromised, and the baby is at risk for developmental issues, fetal growth restriction and chromosomal abnormalities;
— Higher incidence of stillbirth;
— Higher incidence of cholestasis of pregnancy, a condition where the patient starts itching like crazy, which can lead to stillbirth and placenta issues;
— Chance of fatty liver developing, which could be fatal.
So again, why was this child allowed to give birth? I can’t answer that because I don’t know the circumstances, but the thought of all this just wigs me out. Hell, I am in my late (ouch) 30’s and I have never even considered having a child because I don’t feel “equipped” to do so, heh.
And the daddy? Ugh. Who knows if he is as young. The whole scenario is just wrong. It’s sad, but these things happen. Oh, and just for the record, the youngest girl to ever give birth was a 6-year-old in Lima, Peru. In 1939 Lina Medina was 6-years-old when she had a baby.
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