MEET THE inspiring toddler with a RARE connective tissue disorder that is characterised by facial deformities who has defied doctors by FIGHTING the condition with the support of her siblings who see her as BEAUTIFUL.

Stay-at-home-mum-of-three, Tammy Patt (31), from Wisconsin, USA, was 20 weeks pregnant with Charlotte (2) in November 2016, when she was told by doctors that her growing baby had several abnormalities, but they couldn’t specify what, even after going through genetic testing.

From that point until Charlotte was born, Tammy, who also has two other children, Novella (5) and Wyatt (3), was referred to specialists who monitored her pregnancy and the abnormalities on an ultrasound, fetal MRI and more but none of them could reveal Charlotte’s diagnosis.


Charlotte was showing growth restriction with small head measurements, small facial features, short femur bones, small stomach and abnormal shapes in both her feet, while Tammy’s uterus contained a large amount of excess amniotic fluid.

At the end of February 2017, Charlotte was born at 35 weeks, she did not cry when she was delivered and came out very floppy. She was resuscitated and required life support and just four hours after she was born, she underwent a tracheotomy, an incision in the windpipe made to relieve an obstruction to breathing.

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