A 11-year-old girl just gave birth to a baby boy in the Northeast, according to the girl’s family.

“My daughter and baby are fine, and the baby is absolutely beautiful,” stated the girl’s mother.

The family and young mother were not named in order to protect the girl’s privacy.

According to Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing health editor of FoxNews.com, the girl’s age places her in significant dangers

“A very comprehensive approach to her care needs to be instituted early in her pregnancy,” Alvarez said.

Dr. Abdulla Al-Khan, a leading high-risk obstetrician fears that the young mother will have more health issues compared to her baby.

“Her body is clearly not defined for pregnancy with its short stature,” Al-Khan said. “Her chest is not extensively developed for breast tissue, her bones aren’t quite fused, and once you expose a child this young to high amounts of progesterone and especially estrogen, there is controversy that it could halt her growth.”

Al-Khan said other medical challenges facing a girl as young as 10 or 11-years-old include:

• The pelvis is not defined for natural childbirth;
• The vagina could sustain injury during a natural birth;
• The patient is at high-risk for pre-eclampsia, which is high blood pressure and protein in the urine and could lead to convulsions and/or multi-system organ failure;
• A higher risk of pre-term labor and delivery, which would mean the baby’s size would be compromised, and the baby is at risk for developmental issues, fetal growth restriction and chromosomal abnormalities;
• Higher incidence of stillbirth;
• Higher incidence of cholestasis of pregnancy, a condition where the patient starts itching like crazy, which can lead to stillbirth and placenta issues;
• Chance of fatty liver developing, which could be fatal.

The 11-year-old mother joins Lina Medina as one of the youngest mothers in the world. Medina was 6-years-old when she became pregnant and gave birth to a baby.