by Jenna Sachs | fox6now.com

MEQUON (WITI) — A baby boy in Mequon has defied the odds stacked against him before he was even born!

To Elijah Leffingwell, the world must seem a strange place. At his home in Mequon, his days revolve around feeding and changing, though not the kind most parents would recognize.

Jason Leffingwell prepares Elijah’s meal: formula poured into a continuous feed that attaches to his son’s stomach. And it’s not just Elijah’s diapers that need changing.

Elijah’s parents peel bandages off his tiny body to clean around his G-tube. Through it all, Elijah never cries.

Doctors gave little Elijah only a 50% chance of survival.

April Leffingwell’s first 20-month ultrasound first revealed a macro-cyst.

“Thousands of tiny little cysts all the way around the lower left lobe of his lung,” said Jason Leffingwell.

 

“It was so scary. I didn’t understand. Why me? I didn’t think it was fair,” April Leffingwell said.

So began the Leffingwell’s journey to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where they met fetal surgeon Dr. Scott Adzick.

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