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Unless she's a very large girl, there's no way a nine-year-old can carry a baby to term, if the desired result is a healthy mother and child at the end.

Heartbreaking, but I'd say yes.

5 posted on 07/01/2004 10:36:17 AM PDT by Xenalyte (No one will be sitting in sackcloth and ashes wailing, "Oh, if only we had listened to Art Bell!")

Unless she's a very large girl, there's no way a nine-year-old can carry a baby to term, if the desired result is a healthy mother and child at the end.

I delivered a 10 year old when I was a 4th year medical student. She wasn't particularly large.

Unless she's a very large girl, there's no way a nine-year-old can carry a baby to term, if the desired result is a healthy mother and child at the end.

Several years ago I was involved in a project to buy Christmas gifts for the children of prison inmates - we were sent photos & sizes of the kids we were shopping for, and the nine-year-old girl I drew wore a misses' size 16 and looked fully mature.

If this girl was physically mature enough to get pregnant, she's mature enough to carry the child till a c-section would give it a fighting chance. If she got pregnant in April, and it's now July, that's only a couple more months.