Six weeks after the diagnosis, on 14 May 1939, Medina gave birth to a boy by caesarean section. She was 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days old, the youngest person in history to give birth. The caesarean birth was necessitated by her small pelvis.
Valentina Isaeva was 11 years old when she gave birth to her first baby along with her 14 year old boyfriend in 2005. She would hide her pregnancy under loose clothes whenever she went to school. 10 year old Samantha Goodman from Zimbabwe became pregnant at a party with a 12 year old boy.
The youngest father in the world is reportedly a boy from China, who, at 9 fathered a child with an 8-year-old girl. This occurred in 1910. There is also a 10-year-old father recorded in the USA, no details about the mother.
According to Guinness World Records, the oldest father who had the documentation to prove it was Australian Les Colley, who in 1991 fathered a son with his third wife when he was 92. Here are some other notable men who had their mojos working well into their golden years.
A Russian woman named Valentina Vassilyeva and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births.
While a 92-year-old woman delivering a 60-year-old baby may sound like a bizarre plot twist from the movie “Benjamin Button,” it's true. Huang Yijun, 92, of southern China, recently delivered a child which she'd been carrying for well over half a century. The baby wasn't alive, however.
Most often, ovulation begins before women turn 20. On average, it first happens when a girl is between 12 and 13. It's important for young women to know that their first ovulation will happen before their first period. This means that a young woman can become pregnant from vaginal intercourse before her first period.
Erramatti Mangamma currently holds the record for being the oldest living mother who gave birth at the age of 73 through in-vitro fertilisation via caesarean section in the city of Hyderabad, India. She delivered twin baby girls, making her also the oldest mother to give birth to twins.
"the average maternal age has risen for both first-time mothers (from 28.4 years in 2011 to 29.7 in 2021) and those who have given birth previously (from 31.3 years in 2011 to 32.2 in 2021)."
South Korea has the lowest fertility rate globally at 0.9 children per woman, closely followed by Puerto Rico at 1.0 and a trio of Malta, Singapore, and the Chinese Special Administrative Region Hong Kong all at 1.1 children per woman.
When Mollie Kaur fell pregnant aged 13, she was met with judgmental eyes and labelled 'Australia's youngest mum'.
The greatest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev (b. 1707–c . 1782), a peasant from Shuya, Russia. In 27 confinements she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets.
Importantly, fathers tend to be older (30.7 years old on average) in comparison to mothers (23.2 years old on average). That being said, though, the age gap between moms and dads has shrunk somewhat over the most recent 5,000 years. Researchers say the most recent estimates of maternal age average 26.4 years old.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell welcomed a daughter in May 2021 at age 50. Campbell hasn't been silent about wanting to be a mom. In 2017, Campbell told the United Kingdom's Evening Standard, "I think about having children all the time... But now, with the way science is, I think I can do it when I want."
Eva Mendes
The actress was 40 when she gave birth to her first daughter with Ryan Gosling, Esmeralda, and 42 when she welcomed her second, Amada. “Really, I'm so incredibly tired,” Mendes said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show the first time around. “I thought I was tired before at times, but no.
The world's most fertile woman had 69 children: Who is Valentina Vassilyeva and what is her incredible story? Her genes are going to be in the population for many, many years.
One study estimated a woman can have around 15 pregnancies in a lifetime. And depending on how many babies she births for each pregnancy, she'd probably have around 15-30 children. But the "most prolific mother ever," according to Guinness World Records, was Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev in 19th century Russia.
A South African woman has broken a Guinness World Record as she gave birth to 10 babies at once, according to a local media report.
How Many Babies Can Live In One Womb? : NPR. How Many Babies Can Live In One Womb? A California woman gave birth to eight babies Monday. This is only the second time recorded in the U.S. that a woman has given birth to live octuplets.
The age where a man is most fertile is between 22 and 25 years. It is suggested to have children before the age of 35. After this age, the male fertility begins to worsen. After 35, the sperm might result in pregnancies where mutations can occur.
The website of the world record authority Guinness World Records lists the oldest father ever as Australian Les Colley (1898-1998), who allegedly fathered his ninth child at age 92 with a Fijian woman he met through a dating agency.