Back to Basics

Ayden has taken one more step towards looking like a "normal" baby. As you've seen in previous posts, his feeding tube was briefly out, then was put back in. It's out again (and no blood on the end this time). And this time, it's because the doctors are hoping he no longer needs it (it came out last week because we knew he was not going to be fed for at least 24 hours and wanted to give him a break from it).

So far, God has only allowed him to take forward steps since his surgery. There have been no backwards steps - i.e., nothing that has been removed or done with the thought was he was ready has been put back in or undone. This is another one of those steps that might prove to be have been made too soon, but we are praying that he's ready to take everything he needs (both food and medicine) by mouth from here on out and that he's truly capable of going home without any kind of feeding tube.