A couple accompanied by their 7-month-old daughter fled the New Orleans area in advance of Hurricane Gustav. But they suffered the biggest drama of their life by trying to escape the calamity. Kaitlynn Foret, their daughter, died on the way back home because of a rare genetic disease. The baby girl stopped breathing while they were at Six Flags Over Texas on Monday.

Their parents hurried to a nearby hospital, but she was later pronounced dead. Kerri Vidal, her mother, said that she was torn apart because she is experiencing the worst feeling in the world, “knowing you're not going back with your little one."

Complications of Joubert syndrome with Dandy-Walker malformation killed the 7-month-old girl, as the The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office explained the causes of her death.

Although the baby girl’s problems began when she was in the neonatal unit during her first three months of life, her mother said that Kaitlynn had been very well recently. When she was born, she couldn’t sit up and she was on a feeding tube, having breathing problems too, Vidal added.

"She had a little hair that was starting to come in, brown eyes and a cute nose, and we called her `gumdrops' because when she smiled all you could see was her gums," her mother said. It seems that during the weeks she was taking Kaitlynn at the hospital all the doctors were surprised by her recovery.