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Kid Captain: Seth Barton

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The summer before Seth Barton’s freshman year of high school, he needed a routine physical exam.

“Both of my kids were sitting on the exam table, and our doctor walked in the room and almost immediately was like, ‘Hey, there’s a problem here,’” remembers Seth’s mother, Jodie.

Their local doctor noticed that Seth was shorter and weighed less than his sister, Amilia, who is three years younger.





"When he first started the growth hormone treatments, we were so excited that there was hope.