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May 6, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At just two feet six inches tall, Rose Siggins is a medical miracle. Despite a debilitating condition that cost her half of her body, she decided to bear two children whom doctors advised her to abort.

Siggins, 42, suffers from sacral agenisis, a rare congenital disorder causing abnormal fetal development of the lower spine. The condition required her to have half of her body removed at age two.

Siggins had initially learned to walk on her hands as a young child, and was fitted for prosthetic legs when she was six years old, but opted against them because they were too painful. Instead, she gets around on a skateboard.

As a child she was confident, even studying and becoming an auto mechanic. But during her teenage years she worried she’d never have a boyfriend and start a family.

It was at the auto parts shop where she had done business that she would meet another mechanic, Dave Siggins, in 1997. They fell in love and were married.

Sacral agenisis is regularly accompanied by damage to the reproductive system. But the Siggins’ accomplished something they never expected: they conceived their son. Luke.

At their visits with specialists they were told no one with her condition had ever succeeded in carrying a pregnancy to full term and that a baby could crush her internal organs.

But Rose Siggins took the miracle further, refusing to abort. She carried Luke to term, delivering him healthy via C-section in January 1999.

The family considered themselves blessed seven years later when they learned Rose was pregnant again, this time with a girl.

Rose Siggins’ pregnancy with her son was essentially trouble-free, but the second time around was another story, the Christian Post reports.

Siggins experienced bleeding, trouble breathing and abdominal pains in the subsequent pregnancy, and had to have her appendix and gall bladder removed.

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But she still refused abortion, persevered, and welcomed Shelby in January 2006.

Although her life is not without challenges, and her health is a constant concern, Rose still does all she can to be mother to her children, driving them to school in her adapted car, and talking to their friends and classmates about her condition. Her kids think it’s cool to have the shortest mom in the world.

“I’ve got through all the challenges life has thrown at me,” Rose Siggins said, “and I’m thankful I have two amazing kids and a loving husband.”