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Doctors told her to consider an abortion after irregularities in scans caused professionals to worry the youngster had inherited a deadly combination of genes.
But Ms Whitfield, who had complications throughout the pregnancy, ignored advice and decided to carry on with the pregnancy.
Dr Michael Wright, a consultant clinical geneticist at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospital Trust said: 'Nathan has achondroplasia and pseudoachondroplasia and although the two have similar names they are two very difference and distinct conditions.
Experts fear that baby Nathan may inherit back and hip problems due to having both strands of dwarfism, but it is not yet known if he will have either.