11-month-old Ja’bari Gray is finally home after staying in the hospital for almost a year.
He was born without skin on most of his body and he’s now recovering.
It was his mom, Priscilla Maldonado, who shared the amazing news on the GoFundMe page they set up to raise funds for Gray’s medical bills.
Maldonado shared snaps of Gray’s incredible progress, and even though he will still need require more operations, he is now recovering and improving, all thanks to the lab-grown skin doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital grafted onto his body.
Maldonado told Today: “I’m overwhelmed with happiness. Everything is going fine. It’s working out a lot better than I expected.”
The 25-year-old mom called little Gray ‘perfect’ and said she is so happy to do normal newborn activities with her son as he is finally home. She can now hold him regularly and give him a bath.
In an interview with ABC 13, she said: “It was heartwarming because he was crying when he was laying down, but as soon as I picked him up and had the skin-to-skin contact and put him on my chest, he just stopped crying.”
Doctors kept Gray under observation until he was completely weaned off of the pain medication.
When Maldonado was pregnant with Gray, she didn’t expect her son to come to the world without skin. Doctors performed an emergency C-section and doctors were unsure whether the baby would survive without most of his skin.
Thankfully, Maldonado always refused to pull the plug.
Gray underwent two surgeries to open up his eyelids. He will still need more surgeries to separate his right foot, right hand and arms.
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