{"id":22782,"date":"2025-06-23T10:08:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22782"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:11:54","slug":"couple-with-dwarfism-have-children-against-all-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22782","title":{"rendered":"Couple with dwarfism have children against all the odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Most couples are asked when they\u2019ll have kids. For Charli Worgan and her husband Cullen, the question was why. Both living with different forms of dwarfism, the Sydney-based couple often faced public scrutiny \u2014 especially when Charli became pregnant. After their first daughter was born, Charli started a social media account to share their family life. To her surprise, it grew to over 300,000 followers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now parents to three children, Charli and Cullen\u2019s pregnancies have never been simple. Each child had a 25% chance of inheriting both forms of dwarfism \u2014 a fatal condition. That meant undergoing invasive genetic testing, including Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS), which carries a miscarriage risk. Charli explained the emotional toll of waiting for results:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22784\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22225\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Readmore-1-1-1-1-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most couples are asked when they\u2019ll have kids. For Charli Worgan and her husband Cullen, the question was why. Both living with different forms of dwarfism, the Sydney-based couple often faced public scrutiny \u2014 especially when Charli became pregnant. After their first daughter was born, Charli started a social media account to share their family&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22782\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Couple with dwarfism have children against all the odds&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22790,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22782\/revisions\/22790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}