Babies With Glasses... How Did You Know?

[Fly4free]

My DD has been wearing glasses since she was 18 mod old. My DH kept telling me she was occasionally cross eyed, but I hardly ever could catch it. I finally realized after seeing pics of her taken on Christmas Eve, well after her bedtime. Her one eye was rolled in toward the nose in several pictures. I made sure to take pics along to pediatrician and Opthamalogist since her eye rarely rolled in for long and only when she was very tired.

She loved all the attention she received in her adorable little glasses which she picked out herself. She only liked 1 pair & insisted on only trying them even though I didn't like the color.

 

[indimom]

I had a friend in high school who had a similar story. When she was 8, her family went to a football game and her father yelled "Look at #27 go!" and she said "What? They have numbers?" I got my glasses when I was 6 and I remember the first time I actually saw the rain fall. Previously, I knew it was raining because the ground got wet, but I couldn't see the raindrops actually falling.
My DS got glasses at 14 months, but we knew he needed them as early as 8 months because his eye turned in. We adopted him (internationally) and he got glasses within a few weeks of us taking custody. Prior to that, although we could see the need, it was out of our control.

My vision isn't that bad, but I still remember leaving the office with my first pair of glasses and realizing their were words engraved in the top of a nearby three-story building. Hmmm, never noticed those before.
My hubby is very nearsighted and he says she still remembers walking out of the eye doctors' office and being amazed by the individuals leaves on the trees.

At 2 they use very simple pictures: a cake, a bird, a telephone (old style so DD called it a table! LOL) and there was one more I can't remember. Her first appt. with the specialist was almost heartbreaking as with her bad eye, she could not make out the largest one. Such a non-technical therapy as patching is and still so effective. It was amazing!

We had a similar experience. Our daughter lost her vision in one eye in the fall of 2010. We took her to an eye doctor only because she said she thought it was a little blurry. At the appointment, we (and she) found out that her left eye was still 20/20, but her right had a large black hole in the center. She could only see with her peripheral vision. She couldn't even tell there was a letter chart on the wall. We were floored. How could you not notice something like that??

Since then, I've met adults with the same condition. Many of them didn't realize there was a problem until they had to close one eye for a length of time (like when they got dust in it). The other eye covers for the lost field of vision, and they just don't "see" that somethings wrong.