A 10-year-old Colombian girl has given birth to a healthy baby girl, making her one of the youngest mother ever.
According to Univision’s Primer Impacto, the unnamed girl from Manaure, a town in the Colombian Department of La Guajira, arrived at the hospital in tears and “enormous pain” from the contractions.
She reportedly delivered her daughter, who weighed 5 pounds, by caesarean section.
Experts say a C-section delivery for such a young mother is not unusual.
“The baby’s head needs to come through a bony outlet. But in a young girl, the pelvis may not be ready or big enough to deliver a baby,” ABC News quoted Dr Kimberly Gecsi, an OB/GYN at UH Case Medical Centre in Cleveland, as telling RCN La Radio noticias.
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Canadian turns tamil folklore into animation
A Canadian producer has taken her fascination for Indian folktales to the next level by animating The Legend of Ponnivala, a folk epic from Kongu region of Tamil Nadu, for the global audience.
Brenda Beck, who travelled to Tamil Nadu to specialise in the region as part of her studies at Oxford University, collected The Legend of Ponnivala in 1965.
It took her 44 hours to record the story in the voice of a local storyteller.
And now, Beck has created an animated TV series that is told in 26x25 minute episodes.
The production of The Legend of Ponnivala uses a sumptuous, bright palette of Indian colours and imitates a traditional 2D puppet style of movement by following character designs seen in South Indian temple folk painting. — PTI