Girl born with rare skin condition requires multiple 2-hour baths a day to keep skin from cracking and splitting apart
Doctors and the hospital staff were shocked when little Anna's eyes swelled shut and blood circulation to her limbs stopped just moments after she was delivered
As soon as little Anna was born via C-section, her skin began to thicken and crack, creating fissures all along her body, according to her mother Jennie Wilklow. In a conversation with PEOPLE, 34-year-old Wilklow spoke of her daughter's birth in September 2017.
“Things were all seemingly perfect. Moments after her skin hit the air it began to harden and then split causing open wounds all over her body. For months her skin had been building up but now out of the womb it became dry and hard, like armor.”
The hospital staff was shocked after Anna's eyes swelled shut and blood circulation to her hands and feet was cut off. “The doctors and nurses were visibly shaken,” Wilklow remembered, “and my husband sat silently in the post-op room.”