The Feeding Tube (1 month)

1 month ago, 8 weeks early, 700 miles from home you were born
I didn't know what to expect, what was going to happen.
I saw you for the first time in your incubator with so many tubes, so many wires.
There was the IV, the oxygen, 3 different sensors on your chest, the oxygen sensor on your foot that made it glow red, and the bright orange feeding tube...

One by one these tubes came out...
day by day you grew strong and bigger
But the feeding tube remained.
'Once he learns how to eat he can go home.'
That is what we were told, that was the only thing holding you back...
that bright orange tube.

We would try, you would try....
it just didn't seem like it would ever really happen

But then one day the light bulb went off..it worked!
And it worked again and again and suddenly you were ready to be discharged.

We were done with that bright orange tube.

And now 1 month later you lay here in my lap..
already in a rush, here too early
but my perfect little guy.

I am submitting this photo for the iHeartfaces contest as though it might not be perfect photographically it will always mean so much to me.

I am also linking up with Monday Mugs, as her site is just awesome.