Breaths for Benjamin

Today was a monumental day for Benjamin.....are you sitting down everyone? He made so much progress weaning on the ventilator support that they removed his breathing tube! We knew this was likely coming today, and we were anxiously awaiting this to happen. This is what we were praying for...that he would do well enough to have the ventilator support taken away and for him to be able to breathe on his own. Sometimes, once the vent tube is removed, the kiddos can wear out from having to do all the breathing on their own, and need to have a new tube put back in....but as of right now, he has been off the vent now for roughly 10 hours and he is still doing wonderful. We are now praying for him to continue doing well so he can eventually wean off of the high humidity oxygen flow as well. Check out his pictures....I think the looks say it all, he looks so relaxed on the first pic and so excited on the second pic to have the tube out.....more to come soon!!