12 Year Old Gives Birth - Again [p align="justify"]"Well, it happened by accident, so I had to give birth to my child," says Bashtam Gorbunenko as she shrugs her shoulders. Bashtam lives in the village of Komsomolsky, in the Volgograd region. She turned 12 in February. [/p][table style="width: 216px; height: 191px;" align="right" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"] [tbody][tr][/tr][tr][td] [table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="208"][tbody][tr][td][img]vny!://english.pravda.ru/img/idb/parents.jpg" alt="Bashtam (right) and Mikhail (left)" border="1"][/td][/tr][tr][td id="11"]Bashtam (right) and Mikhail (left)[/td][/tr][/tbody][/table] [/td] [/tr][/tbody][/table]Bashtam gave birth to a baby boy several days ago. It is her second child, she gave birth to her first-born son Mitya a year ago. Bashtam was 11 at the time ([a target="_blank" href="vny!://english.pravda.ru/news/science/23-03-2006/english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/361/15909_underage.html"]article[/a]). [p align="justify"]Moskovsky Komsomolets published an article about Gorbunenko's family a year ago. Last August Bashtam assured our correspondent that she had no immediate plans to have another baby. [/p] [p align="justify"]Man proposes, God disposes or so the saying goes. Bashtam got pregnant again, and gave birth to another baby boy this September. The boy was named Ivan. Bashtam's labor was on time. Not unlike his younger brother, Ivan is said to have been born a healthy child. [/p] [p align="justify"]Bashtam and Mikhail, 21, cannot go to a registry office and have their relationship officially registered because she is far too underage. Mikhail is the father of both offspring. Nevertheless, they live together. Bashtam and Mikhail happen to share the surname despite being members of the only two Gypsy families in the village. The Gypsies are known for their common family names. [/p] [p align="justify"]Mikhail took the news about Bashtam's second pregnancy for granted. Disregarding the Gypsy tradition which forbids the father to partake in care of a baby, he promised support and help to Bashtam. [/p] [p align="justify"]These days Bashtam is breast-feeding two babies since her first son is just one year old. Despite being a teenager herself, Bashtam has plenty of milk in her mammary glands. The circumstance is apparently running in the family – Pavlina, Bashtam's mother, used to breast-feed her babies until they turned 3-4 years old. [/p]