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  • Mom who weighs 37 pounds gives birth to healthy son

    02/09/2006 9:17:57 PM PST · by Hillarys Gate Cult · 14 replies · 1,043+ views
    Mercury News ^ | Feb. 09, 2006 | AP
    TULARE, Calif. - A San Joaquin Valley woman who weighs 37 pounds, stands 3 feet tall and uses a wheelchair has given birth to her first child, overcoming serious odds and doubters who advised her to abandon their dream of becoming parents. Eloysa Vasquez, 38, suffers from Type 3 osteogenesis imperfecta, a disorder that makes bones soft and easily broken. Her tiny, distorted body left little room for a fetus to grow and Vasquez suffered two miscarriages before doctors at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital delivered her son, Timothy, by Cesarean section on Jan. 24. "We just took one...