The young Charlotte Garside loves playing with her stuffed animals and dolls as a little girl of two years. But only 22 inches ...
The young Charlotte Garside loves playing with her stuffed animals and dolls as a little girl of two years. But only 22 inches tall, the girl is much smaller than his toys.
The young Charlotte, who lives with his family in a small seaside village near Hull, has a rare form of primordial dwarfism that affects only 100 people worldwide.
She is currently at half the height it should be, and the doctors told his parents, Scott and Emma, they do not know if it is growing in height.
Charlotte's life story is the subject of a documentary to be broadcast on British chain of five in the extraordinary setting series of popular chain.
His mother Emma Newman, 28, said: "Our daughter has a primordial form of dwarfism, but doctors have not been able to identify exactly. It may be that Charlotte is the only person in the world with its subtype.
Emma and her partner Scott Garside, 24, said they had not realized there was something wrong with Charlotte after his premature birth of four weeks.
"Did not think it will be any different"
"We only knew that she was very small. She was so small that only the clothes that might suit him are the doll clothes. But the doctors said that Charlotte had a serious condition, but they were not sure what it was. do you even lift
Three months later, a geneticist diagnosed with dwarfism. Charlotte is not able to eat and digest food but fed a milk formula through a gastric tube.
"Charlotte is fed through the tube a little more than 11 hours a day," says Emma.
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