Girl, 10, gives birth to baby in Mexico... and is now breastfeeding him

[fgg]

Girl, 10, gives birth to baby in Mexico... and is now breastfeeding him

A Mexican girl has become a mother at the age of just 10, according to reports.

The youngster arrived at a hospital in the city of Puebla, suffering from life-threatening complications in her 31-week pregnancy, including seizures.

She gave birth by Caesarean section to a boy weighing 3.3lb at the Women's Hospital in the city, 60 miles south-east of Mexico City.

Her premature son is now said to be in intensive care following a bout of pneumonia, but officials said his young mother visits the baby every day to breastfeed, according to the New York Daily News.

The paper said the hospital revealed the baby boy is in a good condition considering his premature birth and the mother is recovering well after first coming to the centre on October 22.

However, hospital director Rogelio Gonzalez told UpFrontNewswire that the birth had been reported to the state's Attorney General's Office, which is investigating whether the girl could have been raped and who the father is.

Mexican state laws prevent young mothers having abortions unless they can prove they were the victim of sexual assault.

The legal age of consent is 12 and women who have abortions in Puebla face a fine or prison sentence if they are unable to prove they were sexually abused. However, the laws are currently under review.

The shocking case is not the first of a young girl giving birth in Mexico.

In August last year, an 11-year-old known only as Amalia had a child two weeks prematurely after being raped repeatedly by her stepfather when she was 10 years old.

The girl gave birth by Caesarean section to a boy weighing 3.3lb at the Women's Hospital in the city, 60 miles south-east of Mexico City.
When the girl’s mother discovered her daughter was pregnant, she had a nervous breakdown and demanded to know how it happened, said local aid workers.

Amalia told her mother she had been raped by her stepfather and the attack was immediately reported to the police.

The city of Cancun had passed a law banning most elective abortions, but women’s rights groups claimed the girl wasn’t told by doctors that the new legislation allowed for rape victims to have abortions.

And in 1999, a 13-year-old rape victim in the state of Baja California became a cause celebre after medical authorities refused to give her the abortion she was entitled to by law. She later gave birth to the child.

The girl, Paulina Ramirez, brought her case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in 2002, drawing international attention and sparking a high-profile campaign seeking reparations from the Mexican government.

The government later agreed to pay her more than £20,000.

Read more: Girl, 10, gives birth to baby in Mexico | Mail Online

[angelais]

Sad thing is that this isn't that shocking anymore.

[qwerty]

The age of consent is 12? Crazy. Why can't kids be kids for as long as possible any more?

[thunder&lightning]

mexican females like to start having babies when they are teenagers.

[fgg]

^what? nice generalization. you realize that 10-12 is a pre-teen.

[witchcurlgirl]

nothing like painting with that old broad brush............

[greysfang]

There just HAS to be one in every. fucking. thread.

[Brah]

I understand that all Mexicans also can fit 40 people in one car, and smuggle cocaine while they jump the border.

[Just Kill Me]

There just HAS to be one in every. fucking. thread.

It's starting to feel that way, no? JFC.

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[twitchy2.0]

But officer, I swear I thought she was twelve!!!

mexican females like to start having babies when they are teenagers.

Facts 'n' shit:

Mexico: 65.84 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source

and a few random countries to compare
America: 52.1 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source
Germany: 11 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source
Japan: 4 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source
China: 5 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source
Switzerland: 5 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source
Netherlands: 5 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source
Canada: 16 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source
United Kingdom: 20 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source
Greece: 10 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source
Albania: 16 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source
Israel: 17 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source
Niger: 233 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source
South Africa: 66 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source
India: 73 pregnancies per thousand teen women Source

It's starting to feel that way, no? JFC.

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It's kind of freaky just how predictable it's become

[A*O]

If she had a baby then why not breastfeed him too? She obviously has the equipment, ie, functioning breasts (not a sweeping generalisation that all Mexican teens have big titties).

[MontanaMama]

At 10 she's a better mother than a whole slew of high profile moms we hear lots about, criminal and not.

I hope they both do well.

[thunder&lightning]

^what? nice generalization. you realize that 10-12 is a pre-teen.

um well its not a generalization. let us rephrase this. 5-6 mexican females in my high school in the nineties that were pregnant. is that better? they like to have large families. okay, i grew up around these folks for 20 plus years. let it be a generaLIZATION. its truth.

[MontanaMama]

Here ya go t&l, thought this might help you out some.



For future reference a sample of 5-6 is not sufficient to make a sweeping statement about an entire nationality. Use of words like "they like" or "these folks" is a giant red flag that you are about to make an unpleasant and irrational generalization.

[msdeb]

um well its not a generalization. let us rephrase this. 5-6 mexican females in my high school in the nineties that were pregnant. is that better? they like to have large families. okay, i grew up around these folks for 20 plus years. let it be a generaLIZATION. its truth.

and we know all mexican statistics were created IN THE 90'S and at your high school

jebus christ on a cracker.