UK’s ‘youngest ever mum gives birth aged 12 with family unaware of pregnancy’
The record for youngest parents was a father aged 13 and mother, aged 12, when they had a child in 2014.
Puberty normally begins around 11 for girls but it can span from eight to 14, with weight playing a factor.
There is a higher risk of problems developing when younger children are pregnant including premature labour, infections and pre-eclampsia.
There was a reported case in 2017 of another girl in the UK giving birth aged 11 but no further details emerged.
Tressa pictured with her second child Arihanna has said how happy she was after the problems with her first baby.
The youngest mum in the world was a Peruvian girl called Lina Media who was only five years and seven months old when she gave birth in May, 1939 to a boy called Gerardo.
Her parents thought she had a tumour but when she was taken to hospital, she was found to be seven months pregnant.
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