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For parents or family of babies, toddlers, and young children with glasses a vision problems. A place to talk about children's vision and health, the day to day issues that come up with glasses: the worries, the humor, the questions that go along wi
Recent Posts Tagged With 'cataracts'
Reader question – baby not keeping her glasses on anymore
This question came in from Nicole, whose 6 month old, Penny, wears glasses because of congentital cataracts. I need a little bit of help. The last few days or so, I cannot get Penny to keep her glasses on. I can distract her for a few minutes, but as...
Mia’s contact lens
I’m posting this update on Mia from Danielle. -Ann Z Mia finally received her contact lens with a prescription of +8. We had to try 3 different contact lenses and all 3 were sliding around inside her eye. Due to Mia’s glaucoma her eye...
Update on Mia: glaucoma valve shifting and corneal scarring
Danielle posted this comment recently, and I wanted to post it on the blog for anyone else dealing with glaucoma or cataracts. -Ann Z I just wanted to give everyone an updated on Mia, she went in for an EUA (exam under anesthesia) on Thursday. He...
occluding lens for patching
This post comes from Danielle, who’s daughter, Mia, had a cataract in one eye. If you’re new, you may also want to read Mia’s story and update. - Ann Z Our daughter Mia just received an occluding contact lens that she will use a...
encouragement
I ran across this post this weekend: The frustrated princess, the gracious mother and the good eye doctor and I had to share it with everyone. The post is written from the perspective of someone who had glasses at a very young age, she talks about ...
cross-generational eye surgery
Right around the time that we learned that Zoe would need strabismus surgery, my grandma learned that she had put off cataract surgery for as long as was possible, and, as the ophthalmologist put it, her choice was to schedule the surgery now, or by ...
update on Mia
I wanted to give an update on Mia and her progress; and to maybe vent to other parents going through similar situations. Mia just had her 2nd surgery on Tuesday for glaucoma. After her first surgery when she was 1 month old to have a cataract remov...
