When the mother of an eight-year-old girl heard that people in school had been saying her daughter looked pregnant, she panicked. Nothing seemed amiss to the mom, but an ultrasound revealed something that left her stunned. An unexpected health scare is always worrisome, but when it happens to the youngest member of a family, things can often seem hopeless and unfair. Sydney-based Leia and her husband thought everything was fine with their youngest until they heard strange reports from her school.
Eight-year-old Jada seemed healthy, her parents confessed that she was tiny and frail, but she’d always been like that in stature and they never really questioned it. Jada was also the youngest of four kids, so they thought her lack of energy was merely an inability to keep up with the wild lifestyle of a busy family. Read the full story here ▶