People all across the country are talking about this story, and many are asking how can a 10-year old, first of all get pregnant, secondly, carry the baby to term? Eyewitness News wanted to know so we went to get some answers.

For the most part, girls haven't hit puberty until they're about 14, but clearly, in rare cases, it can happen. And if the girl has already hit puberty, the doctor I talked with, said her body probably can deal with a full term pregnancy.

"Less than 10 percent of girls will start their periods before age 11," says Dr. Barbara Nelson.

Dr. Barbara Nelson from Rosemark Women's Care tells me she's never worked a case with a girl this young. And the only data she's been able to study about young pregnancies, is with teens.

"We have a lot of data about teen pregnancy and not a lot about children, obviously the numbers are quite low," says Dr. Nelson.

We know teen pregnancy isn't all that uncommon, but its not without risks.

"Including pre-term labor, high risk of c-section, higher risks of complications such as high blood pressure and diabetes," says Dr. Nelson.

In this case, the baby was reported to weigh about 6 lbs and was full term. As we reported earlier, the girl may have had a condition called precocious puberty, which means the gland controlling puberty activates early. But if she was seeing a doctor for the pregnancy, it should have been reported.

"Anybody under the age of 18 that's pregnant is reportable because there's issues about statutory rape," says Dr. Nelson.

Here's an interesting fact:
We did some searching and found out that in Mexico, where Gutierrez-Juarez is from, the age of consent varies between 12 and 18.

Here's another interesting fact Dr. Nelson told me today, the youngest girl on record to ever give birth was a 5 year old in Peru in the 1930's. The little girl gave birth by C-Section and her parents actually raised the baby as her sibling.

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