eyesight
hi, im not sure if this is classed as a special need but i didnt really know where else to post as i got no replies in the toddler forum.
i noticed that my lo has a lazy eye at about 6months and it took this long (he is now 15mnth) to be reffered to a specialist. when we went to the appointment we also found out that he is longsighted and will need a strong prescription. im just wondering if anyone else has a lo who has the same or who has to wear glasses and how your lo reacted to wearing glasses etc.
holly, mummy to Jayden and 16+5.x
i noticed that my lo has a lazy eye at about 6months and it took this long (he is now 15mnth) to be reffered to a specialist. when we went to the appointment we also found out that he is longsighted and will need a strong prescription. im just wondering if anyone else has a lo who has the same or who has to wear glasses and how your lo reacted to wearing glasses etc.
holly, mummy to Jayden and 16+5.x
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i think from what i've heard off other mums children seem to adapt quite easily. if you asked on any of the forums about lazy eye i wouldn't be surprised if you got some replies as i'm sure i've seen links in the past.
good luck )
Leo is visually impaired so our situations are a bit different, but he got glasses at about 6 months. To be honest I dont make him wear them all the time because he's just too small. He does get irratated and tries to grab them, but hopefully because your little one is a bit older he'll understand better to keep them on. Also he'll soon realise that the glasses make him see better and he'll want to wear them im sure.
When you say 'lazy eye' is that the same as a squint or stabismus? Because I was born with a squint and had glasses from about 10 months, which my mum says was easy and I did well with them. Apparently it look a little while to get used to them, and I also wore a patch to strengthen the weaker eye. At 2 I had an operation to correct it and from about 7 years old I no longer needed glasses.
Hope this is in any way helpful to you, and good luck. Children in spec's are just adorable!
I know it can be quite a shock when you're told that your little one isn't what they call 'perfect', and I remember the first appointment with the paed to find out why he wasn't focusing was horrible. She told me best case would be he needed glasses and worst case that he could be blind. I was devestated and unluckily it was the worst case scenario for us, but whatever happens we as parents get on with it and in some way these things just make you love them more!
Take care
Hannah )
anyway i am naughty and he hardly wears them with me - i dont knbow why i just never think to put them on him and then when i do he pulls them off after 10mins where as at childminders he wheres them to play in pushchair etc!
i know your origninla post was a while ago but just wondered how you are getting on as i posted a few times on baby forum and no one else;'s baby had lazy eye or glasses so young i felt a bit alone!!!
sounds silly i know!
xxxxx
My son is just 1 and is seeing orthoptists to see if he has a lazy eye/sight problems. His isn't so bad at all but I have a severe lazy eye and am concerned he's inherited it.
He's had 2 appointments so far, the first they just looked at his eyes, looked with a weird magnifying glass thing & observed how he focussed. As they didn't find anything obvious they gave ust he choice to have him referred to hospital for the eye drops or just come bakc for more observation in a few months.
We chose to have the full tests just so we'd know if there was a problem and how bad it was so we've just had the consultant appointment with the eye drops. The drops weren't that bad - they didn't seem to affect my son apart from to make him a bit wobbly as it affected his focusing.
The other thing they might do is patching his good eye to try and make the lazy eye work more. I remember I had to have this and I hated it - I was about 5 at the time. I think that quite often my parents had to bribe me to do the patching!! I think i was a headstrong little bugger as a kid!!
As for the op - please try not to be scared, I had 3 operations on my eyes before I was 18 months old and they do help.
Hope your boy is ok at the appt and his eyes aren't too bad
Anyway sorry for the ramble, I just needed to get it off my chest xx