Channel 4 are intending to show 3 shows regarding children over the next few Monday nights from 29th January. The series starts with a programme looking into a rare form of disability called Primordial Dwarfism. A condition so rare that there has been less than 100 children diagnosed with this defect worldwide in the USA.

Primordial Dwarfism is a rare growth defect which starts early in a child's development. Unlike your normal midgets you avoid stepping on Primordial Dwarfism babies are screwed up right at birth being born smaller than your average baby. The proper term given to this is Intrauterine Growth Retardation, a polite way of calling them small retards!

There's a bucketload of conditions which can affect growth, but the one which is linked to these tiny people is called Majewski Oesteodysplastic Primordial Dwarfism which has three types. Primordial Dwarfism comes from MOPT Type II, a condition with no known cause because it is so rare and only affects 1 in 3 million people.

Those with this condition show signs as early as 13 weeks old, they will weigh in at less than 13 pounds and be less than 16 inches in length so they could probably fit in their mummy's handbag. Their head will grow slower than the rest of their body and their nose and eyes will be promient and their teeth giving the tooth fairy a hard job to find under their pillows. As for the rest of their body, their forearm will become dis proportioned and their hips could well be dislocated as for their voice, well imagine how you sound after breathing in balloon helium and you will have a rough idea how they sound.

The also won't need to spend much cash at the hairdressers as Primordial Dwarfs will normally have sparse amounts of hair.

Newborn X Rays can give slight clues that the child may have the growth defect as the pelvis will be narrower than normal and the bones overtubulated, the bones may weaken as the child grows and the skeletal process slowed between 2 and 5 years.

To give a better perception of how one of these small people actually look like cast your eye over to the left and take a guess which one is NOT a dwarf.

The girl on the left is 16, her cousin in the middle is normal and is 22 months whilst the shortey on the right is actually 14 years old!

These people are also prone to bad eye sight, problems with Kidneys and Renal difficulties. On the bright side they are always available as Pantomime dwarfs and free entry to Alton Towers!

The other two Channel 4 shows in this SHORT series are about children who care for their relatives and the impact on a suicide from a child's perspective