Stacey Herald suffers from the debilitating medical condition osteogenesis imperfecta. Basically, it means that she has brittle bones, weakened lungs, and failed to grow and thrive as a normal-sized person might. In Stacey’s case, she stopped growing at about 2 feet, 4 inches tall. Giving birth should be impossible for someone her size. Just don’t tell that to Stacey, who is now pregnant with her third child.
She defied doctor’s orders not to get pregnant the first time by saying, “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?’ “I told her: ‘It’s a miracle that I am here, that I have life, why couldn’t this be a miracle too?”
Since then, she’s had another daughter, and is now pregnant with her first son. It goes without saying that she’ll be bedridden soon, if she’s not already, but given that her second daughter was half her mother’s size when born, it’s a miracle that she’s even made it this far. Let’s just hope this is the last baby for Stacey and her husband Will. There’s no sense incontinuing to push your luck with multiple pregnancies.
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