{"id":7996,"date":"2025-10-28T18:56:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7996"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:56:54","slug":"couple-with-dwarfism-have-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7996","title":{"rendered":"Couple with dwarfism have children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Facing Questions and Challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charli Worgan and her husband Cullen, both living with different forms of dwarfism,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>often faced public curiosity\u2014not just about&nbsp;<em>when<\/em>&nbsp;they would have children, but&nbsp;<em>why<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After welcoming their first daughter, Charli started a social media account to educate people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>about their family life, which now has over 300,000 followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pregnancy Risks and Heartache<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With each pregnancy, Charli endured painful genetic testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She revealed, \u201cHowever when most at 12 weeks are celebrating the joy of being able to announce pregnancy,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was lining up for Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS\u2026to test the genetic makeup of my baby).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their children could inherit either parent\u2019s dwarfism, be average height, or, in rare cases, inherit both, which would be fatal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Waiting for Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charli shared, \u201cIf I can bring this little one into the world\u2026or if his or her journey finishes here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also addressed criticism:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBringing a child into this world with my odds is no simple decision and it\u2019s all about being kind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Thriving Family<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now parents to three healthy children, Charli celebrates motherhood:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no \u2018correct\u2019 way to do motherhood, but I\u2019m sure as anything there\u2019s no \u2018wrong\u2019 way either.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing Questions and Challenges Charli Worgan and her husband Cullen, both living with different forms of dwarfism, often faced public curiosity\u2014not just about&nbsp;when&nbsp;they would have children, but&nbsp;why. After welcoming their first daughter, Charli started a social media account to educate people about their family life, which now has over 300,000 followers. Pregnancy Risks and Heartache&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7998,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions\/7998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}