{"id":4000,"date":"2025-07-01T08:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2025-07-01T08:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:47:41","slug":"this-couple-with-dwarfism-was-told-having-children-was-too-risky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4000","title":{"rendered":"This Couple with Dwarfism Was Told Having Children Was Too Risky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie and Cullen, an Australian couple with dwarfism, defied medical warnings to build a family. Despite a 25% chance of a healthy child and risks of nonviable pregnancies, they welcomed their first daughter, Tilba, with achondroplasia, in 2012. She thrived, giving them hope. In 2018, their second daughter, also with dwarfism, was born healthy despite challenges. Charlie\u2019s third pregnancy in 2020 brought severe complications, but their son<\/p>\n<p>was born without dwarfism, defying expectations. Raising three children\u2014two with dwarfism, one without\u2014they\u2019ve faced medical hurdles and online hate but built a joyful family. With 359,000 Instagram followers, their story of love, resilience, and courage inspires, proving happiness transcends physical limitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Charlie and Cullen, an Australian couple with dwarfism, defied medical warnings to build a family. Despite a 25% chance of a healthy child and risks <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4000\" title=\"This Couple with Dwarfism Was Told Having Children Was Too Risky\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4001,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}