世界身材最小的母亲将生下第三个孩子

World’s Shortest Mother Expecting Third Child

据英国《每日邮报》11月10日报道，斯泰西?赫拉尔德今年35岁，她的身高却只有0.7米左右，医生曾告诉她怀孕可能会要了她的命。但这位堪称世界上身材最小的妈妈，已经生下两个孩子，他的第三个孩子也即将诞生。

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.
赫拉尔德向人们展示她高高隆起的腹部。赫拉尔德来自美国肯塔基州，患有脆骨病。这是一种骨骼发育不良的遗传性疾病。出生后，患儿极易发生骨折。患者通常下肢短小，类似侏儒。

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?”
但是医生警告称，如果怀孕，赫拉尔德的小身体可能承受不住，过大的婴儿可能压碎她的器官，并害死她。但赫拉尔德说：“如果不能生孩子，我会伤心而死。在我的所有生活中，父母总是告诉我什么也不能做。现在，这些医生又告诉我不能有一个完整的家庭，这太令人伤心了。”但是奇迹终于出现了，2006年他们的第一个女儿卡特里经过剖腹产顺利降生了。但令他们绝望的是，卡特里遗传了赫拉尔德的疾病，不会拥有正常身高。一年后，赫拉尔德再次怀孕，第二个女儿经过千辛万苦终于来到人世，而且身材完全正常。

Stacey Herald is dancing with her husband. They met in the supermarket they worked for in 2000 and got married in 2004.
赫拉尔德与高大的丈夫一起跳舞。赫尔拉尔与威尔是在2000年时相遇的，当时他们在一家超市中工作，随后不顾多方反对，两人于2004年结婚。

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.
赫拉尔德与大女儿卡特里玩耍。赫拉尔德说，我所有的孩子都是奇迹，但是我们从未想过我们能够创造更多奇迹，现在我竟然有了三个孩子。我们没有计划要更多孩子，我们只是想他们是上帝送给我们的礼物。当我看着她们时，我和威尔感到非常幸福，再多艰难也都烟消云散。