article_snippet: McGlathery, 23, has since been diligently tracking the ups and downs of Mother-of-three baby's progress on a Facebook page titled 'Eli's Journey,' which already has over 4,000 likes.
article_snippet: Eli  has been treated at the USA Children's and Women's Hospital in Mobile for three weeks.
article_snippet: McGlathery has shared the good news of McGlathery test results, including an eye exam and cranial scan that came back normal, as well as the 'hard blow' the family was dealt when the family found out Eli   didn't have nasal passages.
article_snippet: This means that even though Eli   can have a nose built for McGlathery, doctors are still unsure at this point 'if it will actually be functional,' she wrote.
article_snippet: The mother-of-three has also shared the emotional joys she's had with Eli  , including Eli   first successful bath and bottle feeding, and the first time she saw Eli   face without an oral respirator.
article_snippet: Eli  's parents, Brandi McGlathery and Troy Thompson, give Eli's parents, Brandi McGlathery and Troy Thompson child his very first bath .
article_snippet: McGlathery, 23, has been diligently tracking the ups and downs of she baby's journey on a Facebook page titled 'Eli  's Journey,' which already has over 4,000 likes .
article_snippet: Both of Eli  's parents and Eli   grandmas have learned the proper way to suction, clean and change Eli   tracheostomy tube. '
article_snippet: Brandi McGlathery also shared one of the first emotional moments she got to share with Eli while Brandi McGlathery was still in the neonatal intensive-care unit, the first time she had Brandi McGlathery to she for more than 15 minutes since Brandi McGlathery'd been born. '
article_snippet: Both of Eli's parents and his grandmas Elihis grandmas have learned the proper way to suction, clean and change Brandi McGlathery tracheostomy tube.
article_snippet: McGlathery calls Eli 
article_snippet: And Brandi McGlathery has also shared concerns of what Eli  will have to experience as Eli  grows up, and whether children and the world will be cruel to Eli . '
article_snippet: My biggest fear for Eli  is that the world won't see Eli  as the beautiful, brave little boy that I see Eli  as.'
article_snippet: But no matter what Eli  will always have Eli  mother, who calls Eli  