Tiniest Mom Gives Birth to Baby
Thursday March 6, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Dwain Currier
Audio/Video Engineer

Stacey Herald is 28.5 inches tall and recently gave birth to her second daughter. When Stacey was pregnant with Makaia, her doctor told her—to no suprise—she needed to kill her child or risk losing her life. Stacey and her husband, Wil, said no way.

“My whole life, I’ve been told I wasn’t able to have children. I would not live through the pregnancy, that with the size of my torso, the baby would grow up underneath my lungs and smother out my lungs and my heart and we would both die…Something inside me just didn’t believe that,” Stacey says.

The Heralds have an older daughter, 16-month-old Katira. Katira was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, the same genetic disorder the Stacey has. Their newborn daughter Makaia is expected to grow to average height, something doctors find unbelievable. Why so unbelievable? Because some doctors put so little trust in God, and sadly many of their patients do the same.