Houston, born March 15 at a Texas hospital, faces from a defect in his arteries since birth.

The 12-day-old boy is revealed to survive a rare birth defect, a feeding tube and open heart surgery. Now his family is seeking to witness how the fight with an insurance company will fare.

"When he came out, he made one little cry and he didn't really cry much", posted Houston's father, Doug Tracy, 39, of Crowley, Texas.

Tracy removed the umbilical cord and saw the hospital staff clean his son. However, before his wife Kim Tracy, 36, could touch their son doctors rendered jittery.

Within few hours the Tracy family would discern their son was born with a heart condition called d-transposition of the great arteries, signifying that the primary aorta and pulmonary arteries are transposed where they should meet the heart.

Dr. Steve Muyskens, pediatric cardiologist at Cook Children's Medical Center, who treated Houston, quoted that in this case he would have died, had he not received the care.

Houston was born on Monday, March 15. By Friday that week, doctors operated successfully.