She's only 2ft 4in (or 28 inches) tall.
The 35-year-old Dry
Ridge, Kentucky, resident suffers from Osteogenesis Imperfecta, which
causes brittle bones and underdeveloped lungs, and means she failed to
grow.
Because of the condition, doctors advised a baby would grow
so large
inside her tiny body it would eventually crush her organs. But
then she became pregnant.
"They
all told me that I would die. They begged me not to have a baby. Even my
mother said,' You know you won't survive right?," she said. "I told
her: 'It's a miracle that I am here, that I have life, why couldn't this
be a miracle too?'"
After 28 weeks, doctors performed a cesarean
section and delivered her daughter. The next year she became pregnant
again. After 34 weeks doctors another a cesarean section.
Does she has plans for more children?
"All my babies are miracles, but we haven't thought about if we're
going to have some more, as they're a real handful right now," Stacey
said. "We didn't plan to have more than two kids, we just think that
they're a great gift to the world, and when I look at them I see Will
and I feel so full of love, it's tough not to want more."
And,
yes, we see you staring at the screen: Her husband is 5'9". Her first
daughter inherited her condition; the second daughter will grow to
"average" height.
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
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