Nov 11, 2009: Mini Mom

xoxoxoBruce • Nov 11, 2009 2:36 am

You've probably heard guys say, "gotta go, the little woman is waiting for me".
Of course that's just a figure of speech for most, but not for Will Herald.
The 5ft 9inch Mr Herald is married to Stacey, who's 2ft 4inches tall.

No problem there, couples mismatched in height aren't all that uncommon.
The problem in pregnancy...

The couple met in 2000 while working for a supermarket in their home town and were desperate for a family after marrying in 2004.
But doctors warned Mrs Herald a baby would grow so large inside her tiny body it would eventually crush her organs, strangling her from the inside out.
Mrs Herald said: ‘It broke my heart that I couldn’t have kids. ‘All my life my parents had told me that I could do anything. Then there were these doctors telling me that we couldn’t be a complete family. It really hurt.’

Despite the pleadings of her family, and Doctors, when she got pregnant she decided to go for it. Now they have two girls and is nearly ready to deliver a son. One of the girls has inherited her mother's Osteogenesis Imperfecta, and one hasn't. It remains to be seen if the boy will, or won't. :eyebrow:

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Phage0070 • Nov 11, 2009 5:32 am

Behold the limitless power of the human race to taint our own gene pool!

DanaC • Nov 11, 2009 8:17 am

Am I the only one reading this who gets hung up on the question of bedroom logistics?

glatt • Nov 11, 2009 8:27 am

Does the guy have any idea how bad it looks in the photo to have his fingers there?

monster • Nov 11, 2009 9:09 am

But despite all the obstacles, the mother and father, a trainee priest, say they want even more children

newtimer • Nov 11, 2009 9:28 am

DanaC;607450 wrote:
Am I the only one reading this who gets hung up on the question of bedroom logistics?

Your answer lies with that giant syringe that's on the couch.

classicman • Nov 11, 2009 9:30 am

ewwwwwwwwwwww - thanks glatt, NOT!

Tawny • Nov 11, 2009 9:43 am

Seriously, Dad's fingers look way too comfortable.

glatt • Nov 11, 2009 10:03 am

To be fair, I'm sure it's just a brief instant of time captured by the shutter click. The kid was clearly squirming and he was trying to hold her still for the photo.

Cloud • Nov 11, 2009 10:06 am

I saw a segment on them on tv. proves there's someone for everyone, I guess.

lumberjim • Nov 11, 2009 10:38 am

my heebies have geebies

monster • Nov 11, 2009 1:56 pm

my hebe is at school

toranokaze • Nov 11, 2009 4:09 pm

DanaC;607450 wrote:
Am I the only one reading this who gets hung up on the question of bedroom logistics?

I believe there is still a video in the NSFW WTF thread.

richlevy • Nov 11, 2009 8:56 pm

I'm just trying to figure if her first two were C-Section or not.

[COLOR=Black]I see where she has a vertical scar near her belly button, so it could have just been the world's most radical episiotomy, but those are supposed to be downward between bottom of vagina and anus.[/COLOR]

Pie • Nov 11, 2009 9:50 pm

TFA said they were c-sections, yes.

classicman • Nov 11, 2009 9:56 pm

Yewwwwwwwwwwwww spent way too much time lookin at that!

Gravdigr • Nov 12, 2009 6:06 am

No part of me needed to see any of that.:headshake

Kasszia • Nov 12, 2009 2:39 pm

Okay, I have osteogenesis imperfecta, not to the same degree she does. I'm 5' tall. I passed this onto my son. My sister's children aren't affected by it. Got it from my Dad's side and one of his siblings are affected. (out of 5) The odds were pretty good that I wouldn't pass it on but...
That said, I would NEVER inflict this on any other child. I refuse to have more kids. We have talked to our son (now 15) about thinking very seriously about having kids and passing it on to them.
Ive broken my bones 35 times, my 15 yo son, 10.
*shaking head*

Pie • Nov 12, 2009 2:55 pm

Wow. Thanks for the perspective, Kasszia.

Is this a condition that can be screened in the embryo? Some people would object to that, but for many it might be a way to have an unaffected baby.

footfootfoot • Nov 12, 2009 9:53 pm

A good friend of mine has OI. His whole family does to varying degrees. He got clipped (vasectomy) because he couldn't in good conscience pass that on to anyone. His siblings didn't have the same perspective. With predictable results...

An avid athlete, he's got a stack of films three inches high. He's had easily 100 fractures in the past 40 odd years. He's about 5-8, slightly barrel chested, but not noticeably so.

For him it really and truly sucks because he loves sports like wind surfing, skiing, hiking. He loved carpentry but is shut out of it for obvious reasons and so has a desk job where he crawls the walls.

Having known this guy for decades I have a lot of admiration for his decision to forgo his wants or desires for fulfillment at the expense of someone else's health and happiness.

I'll let you read between the lines for my opinion of mini-mom.

"Fuck the hive! I am the only bee that matters." What an asshole.

I lied, sue me.

Kasszia • Nov 13, 2009 12:17 am

Pie;608023 wrote:
Wow. Thanks for the perspective, Kasszia.

Is this a condition that can be screened in the embryo? Some people would object to that, but for many it might be a way to have an unaffected baby.

I don't think it's screened for at this point, but I don't keep up on it. One of the big give aways that someone has it that the sclera of our eyes is blue, not white.
They are trying some therapies to help strengthen the bones, but it's far from perfected.

xoxoxoBruce • Nov 13, 2009 1:38 am

Is this a case of not being common enough to attract research money, Kasszia? At least for anything more than treating symptoms, like the bone thing, that could carry over to something else, like osteoporosis treatments?

Sundae • Nov 13, 2009 9:30 am

OI came up in a fairly recent case where Sally Clarke was jailed for killing two of her babies. It was eventually proved that the babies were not abused, but were OI sufferers (using family history and photographs as Mrs Clarke was not herself a sufferer, only a carrier).

She served over three years in prison while the wheels of justice slowly turned, but sadly died four years after her release at the age of 42.

The jury admitted the deciding point in the trial was the evidence of Professor Sir Roy Meadows, who stated that the chances of two babies dying natural, unexplained deaths in an affluent family like the Clarks were 73m to one.

The only good point from this tragic affair is that the medical community are now far more aware of OI and the symptoms it presents.

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