A young Ohio boy who wasn’t expected to live past infancy has defied the odds. Now, at the age of 9, he is tackling life head-on and refuses to let anything hold him back. Born preterm with a rare birth disorder, a severe cleft pallet, and serious lung and heart issues, doctors predicted that Carson Locher didn’t have long to live. Doctors didn’t expect Carson’s mother, Jessie Beals, to have a full-term pregnancy. Early on, they discovered a tear in her uterine wall and said she would likely miscarry, reported Fox News. At 20 weeks in utero, little Carson was still growing strong; but, doctors detected severe issues during his first sonogram. “It got really awkward and they brought in more techs and the doctor and nobody really talked after that,” Beals told Fox News. “They weren’t 100 percent sure what was wrong but noticed his head was growing faster than his …