Can a five year old get pregnant?

A woman becomes able to get pregnant when she ovulates for the first time — about 14 days before her first menstrual period. This happens to some women as early as when they are eight years old, or even earlier.
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Can a 5 year old make a baby?

A woman can get pregnant and have a baby as soon as she begins ovulating, or producing eggs. This typically occurs about a year after they first begin menstruating, which for North American women, usually happens between the ages of 11 and 12.
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What age can a kid get pregnant?

Technically, women can get pregnant and bear children from puberty when they start getting their menstrual period to menopause when they stop getting it. The average woman's reproductive years are between ages 12 and 51.
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How old is the youngest mother?

Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlina meˈðina]; born 23 September 1933) is a Peruvian woman who became the youngest confirmed mother in history when she gave birth aged five years, seven months, and 21 days.
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Can a 12 year old get pregnant without a boyfriend?

The answer is — yes! While it isn't likely, any activity that introduces sperm to the vaginal area makes pregnancy possible without penetration.
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Can a 12 year old have a boyfriend?

"There is no law about when you are old enough to have a girlfriend or boyfriend, unlike the age of consent. You need to know your child well, because some children may be ready for a relationship at 12 but another not until they are 17."
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Can a 14 year old get a 13 year old pregnant?

A woman can get pregnant if she has vaginal sex with a man at any age after she's begun having regular monthly periods. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , in 2017, around 194,000 babies were born to American girls between the ages of 15 to 19.
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Can boys get pregnant?

People who are born male and living as men cannot get pregnant. A transgender man or nonbinary person may be able to, however. It is only possible for a person to be pregnant if they have a uterus. The uterus is the womb, which is where the fetus develops.
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Can an 8 year old get pregnant?

A woman becomes able to get pregnant when she ovulates for the first time — about 14 days before her first menstrual period. This happens to some women as early as when they are eight years old, or even earlier.
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Can a girl get pregnant by another girl?

The short answer to this question is no, not through sexual intercourse. Two cisgender women (meaning assigned female at birth) in a relationship cannot become pregnant without some form of assisted reproductive technology (ART).
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Who has the most kids in the world?

The first wife of peasant Yakov Kirillov from the village of Vvedensky, Russia, gave birth to 57 children in a total of 21 births. She had four sets of quadruplets, seven sets of triplets and ten sets of twins.
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How old is the youngest father?

World's youngest fathers on record
  • 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. ...
  • There are two recorded 11-year-old fathers.
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How do you get pregnant?

The sperm enters the body through the vagina, then travels through the cervix and womb to the fallopian tubes, where the egg is usually fertilised (conception). The egg can be fertilised by sperm contained in semen or pre-ejaculate.
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What is the average age for first kiss?

Interestingly, this is largely agreed upon across generations. No need to wait for the official first date to get a little face time, however. Americans agree kids are ready for their first kiss at age 15 (15.1 on average), while on average, they had theirs at age 14.5.
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What age can you have a crush?

Please right-click the download link and choose "Save Link As..." First crushes may occur at any time, but generally start at around 10-13 years of age. They are an important step in developing normal and healthy romantic relationships, and provide opportunities to learn how to compromise and communicate.
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Is it OK to have a boyfriend at 9?

Nine is far too young to be having a solitary, romantic boyfriend or girlfriend. Kids at this age and stage are not equipped to handle the complexities and intense emotions of an exclusive boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.
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Can a girl get pregnant by kissing and hugging?

There's absolutely no way to get pregnant from kissing, no matter how much tongue is involved.
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How old is the oldest mom?

Erramatti Mangamma currently holds the record for being the oldest living mother at the age of 74 after conceiving through the process of in-vitro fertilisation via caesarean in Guntur town of Hyderabad. She delivered twin baby girls.
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Who is the oldest woman to give birth?

Erramatti Mangayamma at age 74 gave birth to twins in India last week after becoming pregnant through IVF, making her the oldest person ever to give birth, according to her doctors, and reigniting debate over so-called geriatric pregnancies.
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What is the heaviest baby ever born?

The Guinness World record for the heaviest baby to survive infancy belongs to a boy weighing 22 pounds, 8 ounces, who was born in Aversa, Italy, in 1955. In 2019, a New York woman named Joy Buckley gave birth to a daughter who weighed 15 pounds, 5 ounces.
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How many child can a woman give birth in her life?

Women can reproduce for about half of their lifetime and can only give birth about once every year or so. So it makes sense that women can only have a fraction as many children as men. One study estimated a woman can have around 15 pregnancies in a lifetime.
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How many babies can a woman have at once?

If you're carrying two babies, they are called twins. Three babies that are carried during one pregnancy are called triplets. You can also carry more than three babies at one time (high-order multiples). There are typically more risks linked to a multiple pregnancy than a singleton (carrying only one baby) pregnancy.
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How can I get twins?

Twins can occur either when two separate eggs become fertilized in the womb or when a single fertilized egg splits into two embryos. Having twins is more common now than it was in the past. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , twin births have nearly doubled over the last 40 years.
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How do I know I'm pregnant?

The most clear-cut way to know if you're pregnant is to take a pregnancy test. When you take a pregnancy test, it's measuring a hormone called human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG). This hormone starts building in your body from the moment of conception and will multiply rapidly in the beginning of your pregnancy.
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