A 10-month-old baby boy born with a rare disease that left him without any skin can now be kissed and cuddled by his mother after new skin was grown for him in a laboratory.

Ja'bari Gray was born on New Year's Day in San Antonio, Texas, with his eyelids, hands and feet fused together and skin missing from almost everywhere except on his head.

Doctors at Methodist Children's Hospital put the infant on life support and told his parents, Priscilla Maldonado and Marvin Gray, there was nothing more they could do.

But the couple refused to accept this and, after a long-fought battle with their insurance company, secured their son a transfer to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. Doctors had skin grown for him in a laboratory in Boston that specializes in burn victims then had his new skin flown to Texas for transplant, reported KTRK.

His family says they are so excited that they can finally hold and touch Ja'bari for the first time.

Now you can kiss him, touch him, do all that stuff,' Maldonado, Ja'bari's mother, told KTRK. 'He got to wear his first set of clothes now, so he's getting there.'

She says Ja'bari's transplant is the first of its kind that's ever been done for such a young child with his condition.

Maldonado said she was so excited to hold her son and have skin-to-skin contact for the first time.

'It was heartwarming, because he was crying when he was laying down,' she told KTRK.

'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.'

Maldonado wrote in a post on GoFundMe that she suffered no complications throughout her pregnancy until around the 37-week mark when doctors noticed he wasn't gaining weight.

Her doctors at Methodist Children's Hospital decided to induce her but, on the morning of the procedure, Ja'bari's heart rate dropped so low that an emergency C-section was performed.

More details; https://www.paxexlive.com/thread/texas-baby-born-without-skin-is-able-to-be-held-kissed-by-mother-after-skin-transplant

Wow

Wow thanks to medical science its actually one the greatest miracle God gave to us I can just imagine the joy in the hearts of the parents