By Umoja Reporter,
Calabar: Hypothesis indicate that the world’s youngest grandmother is Nigerian, and she was only 17. Mum-Zi was just eight years and four months old when she gave birth to a baby girl in 1884. From Nigeria, on an island called Akwa Akpa, now known as the city of Calabar.
But a Romanian woman has been labelled the world’s youngest granny after she became a grandmother at 23. First things first – how is that even possible? Well, we’ll tell you…
The Daily Mail reports that Rifca Stanescu from Romania gave birth to her daughter Maria when she was only 12 years old.
The question here remains, at what age exactly is a woman in position to conceive and give birth,