{"id":12912,"date":"2025-11-19T13:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=12912"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:25:14","slug":"the-moment-he-saw-his-newborn-baby-this-father-froze-and-the-only-words-he-could-whisper-were-its-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=12912","title":{"rendered":"The moment he saw his newborn baby, this father froze \u2014 and the only words he could whisper were, \u201cIt\u2019s bad.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jennie Wilklow claimed that everything went \u201cseemingly perfect\u201d during the September 2017 C-section delivery of her daughter Anna. But in a second, everything shifted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 16-month-old is said to have been born with a disease that caused her skin to split open shortly after birth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cMoments after her skin hit the air it began to harden and then split causing open wounds all over her body,\u201d<\/strong> she told People<\/a>. \u201cFor months her skin had been building up but now out of the womb it became dry and hard, like armor.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe doctors and nurses were visibly shaken, and my husband sat silently in the post-op room,\u201d<\/strong> she added.<\/p>\n

According to the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), the medical community quickly determined that Anna suffered from Harlequin ichthyosis<\/a>, a rare skin ailment characterized by the presence of thick scales of skin on newborns. About one in every 500,000 people has it.<\/p>\n

Wilklow wrote to INSIDER that a diagnosis was made an hour after Anna was born and that she spent her first month of life in a hospital.<\/p>\n