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• The Little People Turn 50!

  I just had a wicked flashback. Suddenly I was three again and happily playing with my Fisher Price Little People Farm House. As a little person myself, I spent oodles of hours with the simple cog like limbless figures, farm animals and their home, the portable barn.  I can recall vague memories of clutching the blue handle in my hand as I would take along my Play n’ Go farm to visit grandma’s. Those were the days. What brought on this flood of memories? Read More... Posted Mar 23 2009, 04:30 PM by SunnyChanel with | with no comments Filed under: doll, toys, fisher price, retro toys, little people

• 2-Foot 9-Inch Woman Survives Pregnancy

  And you thought YOU had run out of room in your ribcage during pregnancy. Christianne Ray survived pregnancy and childbirth despite having a very rare kind of dwarfism, spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, which left her at only 2 feet 9 inches tall.   She got pregnant at 19 and panicked, because she and her boyfriend were young. And also because she didn't know whether physically she'd be able to carry a healthy child -- and survive. The first OB/Gyn she saw recommended abortion.   Read More... Posted Feb 08 2008, 09:22 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: ABC, teen pregnancy, little mommies, high-risk pregnancy, teenager, teenage motherhood, little people, dwarfism