Lady Gives Birth To Baby That ‘Looks Older Than Her’

A young South African woman has hit the headlines for giving birth to a baby who looks older than she does and is said to resemble “an old woman”.

The unnamed 20-year-old gave birth to a girl with the rare medical condition progeria, also called Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, which causes victims to age faster than usual.

Media in South Africa reported on Monday, 30th August that the young woman gave birth to the baby at her home in the small town of Libode in the province of Eastern Cape.

She gave birth at home after her grandmother phoned for an ambulance when she went into labour, but it failed to arrive in time.

After the baby girl was born with deformed hands and wrinkled skin, she and her mother were taken to hospital.

Her grandmother told reporters: “We were told there that she’s disabled. I noticed during her birth that there was something strange with her. She did not cry and she was breathing through her ribs.

“I was shocked because that was strange. Now I hear that people are calling her names. That hurts a lot. If I had means, I would put all of them in jail.”

After snaps of the baby were posted online, some netizens commented that she looked like “an old woman”, or even “an ape”, to the chagrin of her family.

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