Going along with what Mark Pav said, I have really small hands and short fingers. I used to play guitars with a long scale neck, but now play Gibsons with the shorter scale neck and it does make some things easier for me.

But yeah, a C chord isn't that much of a stretch. Unless your really young and have really small hands anyway....I'd say it's more the case of your fingers just getting used to playing chords, we all went through that.