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Nassau, Bahamas

10:16 AM by Maria
My son and I arrived here in Nassau,Bahamas last Sunday afternoon. I really loved it the moment I stepped out from the airplane. The weather was just so right and the place totally reminds me of the Philippines. When we got to the Airport,smiling faces and friendly people greeted and welcomed us. There were also a band playing inside the airport. Bahamas is a country with 7,000 islands,it's almost like the Philippines which has so many islands too.

Nassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 260,000 (2008 census), nearly 70 percent of the entire population of the Bahamas (303,611). Lynden Pindling International Airport, the major airport for the Bahamas, is located about 10 miles (16 kilometres) west of Nassau city centre, and has daily flights to major cities in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and the Caribbean. The city is located on the island of New Providence, which functions much like a federal district. While there is no local government, it is governed directly as an administrative division of the national government.
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The All Time Youngest Mother In The World

9:28 AM by Maria
That little girl in the picture is Lina Medina.She was born in Peru on September 27,1933.Lina Medina is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history,she gave birth at the early age of 5 years,7 months and 21 days old.

Lina's parents brought her to the Hospital at the age of 5 years old because of her abdominal increasing size.They thought that she had a tumor,but her doctors found out that she was in her seventh month of pregnancy.Dr. Gerardo Lozada took Lina to Lima,Peru to get Lina checked by other specialists and they confirmed that Lina was really pregnant. A month and a half later, on May 14,1939,Lina gave birth to a boy by a cesarean section.The surgery was performed by Dr. Lozada and Dr. Busalleu, with Dr. Colretta providing anesthesia.Her case was reported in detail by Dr. Edmundo Escomel to La Presse Medicale, along with the additional details that her menarche had occurred at 8 months of age (or 2 1/2 according to a different article,) and that she had had prominent breast development by the age of 4. By age 5 her figure displayed pelvic widening and advanced bone maturation.

Her son weighed 2.7 kg.(6..0 lb/0.43 st) at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. Gerardo was raised believing that Lina was his sister, but found out at the age of ten that she was his mother. He grew up healthy but died in 1979 at the age of 40 of a disease of the bone marrow.

There was never evidence that Lina Medina's pregnancy occurred in any but the usual way, but she never revealed the father of the child, nor the circumstances of her impregnation. Dr. Escomel suggested she might not actually know herself by writing that Lina "couldn't give precise responses". Lina's father was arrested on suspicion of rape and incest, but was later released due to lack of evidence.Medina later married Raúl Jurado, who fathered her second son in 1972.They live in a poor district of Lima known as Chicago Chico ("Little Chicago").

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