Poppy was born two weeks early weighing a healthy 7lb 2oz on the last day of September 2012 in Northampton, England. It was only when Poppy was 3 weeks old that my husband noticed there was something wrong with her left eye, one evening while pacing around the lounge to try and soothe her to sleep. She had been having …
Here is Willow on her second birthday. Our story starts on October 7th, 2013. My daughter, Willow, was celebrating her second birthday. There were friends, family and pictures. Lots of pictures. That evening I started looking through the photos we had taken, only to notice that her eye was turned in every single one of them. I immediately …
Our second son, Tucker was diagnosed with Amblyopia in October 2012 right before his 7th birthday he got his first pair of glasses, after a vision screening at the beginning of First Grade caught that he needed a follow up with an eye doctor. Both my husband and I wear glasses and so we would …
Little Cassandra was born early 2013. At her 2 week checkup her pediatrician noticed something in her eye. She sent us to have it looked at with the specialist and after one visit we learned that she had a congenital cataract and that it needed to be fixed asap or her eye would not develop …
Ruby was born with a congenital cataract in her right eye. We didn’t discover this until a fateful night at urgent care when she was three months old. We were there in the middle of the night for a serious case of RSV. But the doctor kept coming back to her eye. I was concerned …
All of our kids are AMAZING super heroes! If you want to give them just a little bit more of that feeling when they receive their glasses super hero shirt then I have created a couple tutorials just for you. Your kids will love acting like a super hero in their super hero mask, cuffs …
Mirabel is 21 months old and she has Koolen deVries Syndrome – a microdeletion of part of her 17th chromosome (17q21.31). The syndrome is rare with 1 in 16,000 being born with the condition. Mirabel was born with crossed eyes and has been diagnosed with alternating esotrpia and accomodative esotropia, congential nystagmus, far-sightedness and astigmatism. …
Tommy is 2 years old. He has a unilateral congenital cataract discovered when he was 3 days old. He had his cataract removed at 5 weeks old and has been wearing a patch ever since. Just before he turned 2, he got his first pair of glasses- bifocals! He loves his sisters, trains, cars, and …
Mahli was diagnosed with a unilateral cataract when she was 9 months old and had it removed just a week later. The diagnosis turned our world upside down, and to be honest, it was a hard pill to swallow at first. As any parents would, we asked the hard questions like “What did we do …
Our story starts at Lily’s routine 2 week check up. Our pediatrician did all the normal tests: listened to her, shined lights up her nose and in her ears. Then she came to her eyes and she took an abnormally long time on her right eye. I asked what was wrong and she said she …
William was just under 18 months old when we noticed his left eye turning in. At first we wondered if we were right but then others started to notice. So we took him to the health visitor who referred us to optometrist. The first appointment determined he had a squint and resulted in a referral …
Meet Moses! This past February, right after his 4th birthday, I began to notice a very slight misalignment in his eyes when he was playing his race car game. At first I was the only one who could see it. But it quickly progressed and I made him an appointment with a developmental optometrist. Moses …
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When Sophia was less than 24 hours old, a pediatrician noticed an opacity on her right eye. He said it was hard to see, but definitely there. I was told to follow up at our 2 week check up. Fast forward to Sophia at 6 weeks old. We met Dr. P. for the first time. …
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