Every parent who has children always wants them to be attractive, intelligent, and healthy.
Unfortunately, the unidentified 20-year-old South African lady gave birth to a girl who has progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, a rare disorder that accelerates aging in children. After a few months, a baby who looks older than her mother and is claimed to resemble “an elderly woman” has made headlines due to the birth of a young woman.
Media in South Africa reported on 30th August 2021 that a young woman 20 years old gave birth to her baby at her home in the small and poor 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 labor, but it failed to arrive in time. She gave birth before she was received in the hospital.
After the baby girl was born with wrinkled skin, and dark color. She and her mother were taken to hospital.
Her grandmother said “Doctors told to us that she’s di-sabled. I noticed during her birth that there was something strange with her. She could not cry and she couldn’t breath throught nose. We were stunned and shoked because that was strange to them, we never have seen. Now I hear that people are calling her names. That nervous a lot.”
After snaps in her mother arms of the newborn baby were posted online, some netizens commented that she looked like “an old woman”, or even “an ape”.
The Mayo clinic states that progeria “is an extremely rare, progressive genetic disorder that causes children to age rapidly, starting in their first two years of life.” Doctors say that a mutation in a gene causes progeria and, in turn, causes accelerated ageing. There are usually no symptoms when a baby is born, but they start to show signs of the ᴅɪsᴇᴀsᴇ during their first year. However in some cases, like this one, there are some signs from birth.
