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THE world's smallest mum is expecting her third child — despite warnings the pregnancy could kill her.
Stacey Herald, 35, is just 2ft 4ins tall, and her new son will already be half her size when he is born.

By the time he is one, the baby boy will dwarf her.




Doctors have warned Stacey, from Kentucky in the US, that the pregnancy could be fatal for her — but she and her 5ft 9in-tall husband Will, insist their kids are a gift from god.

She 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."


Stacey suffers from Osteogenesis Imperfecta, which causes brittle bones and underdeveloped lungs. The condition stunted her growth and forces her to use a wheelchair.

Currently as wide as she is tall, she cannot hold her youngest daughter because her belly gets in the way, and she has to rely on husband Will to do most things around the house.

She admits being pregnant is "uncomfortable" and leaves her bedridden for weeks on end.

Despite all the obstacles, Stacey and Will, a trainee priest, say they want even more children.

The couple met in 2000 while working for a supermarket in their home town of Dry Ridge and were desperate for a family after marrying in 2004.

Doctors warned Stacey a baby would grow so large inside her tiny body it would eventually crush her organs, strangling her from the inside out.

Stacey said: "The doctors 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?'"

Their first child Kateri was born in 2006 — and suffers from the same condition as Stacey.

A second daughter Makaya followed in 2008.

At 18 inches she was more than half her mum's body length when she was born, weighing 4lbs and 7oz.

Now both girls are bigger than their mum who is 30 weeks pregnant with her first boy.

She said: "It's getting tougher and tougher to move. At the moment because I'm getting really big again I can't hold my youngest daughter because my belly gets in the way and I can't get my arms around her.

"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."



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