if your dc needs glasses

weddingbellenyc

how did you detect the problem? did you have a concern or did a doctor bring it to your attention? what was your process? how did you and your dc handle the transition to wearing glasses? tia!

FutureMrsDenman

DD is wearing glasses right now, but it may be temporary - we'll see.  We noticed her eyes crossing intermittently at first around 1 year old.  We took her to the eye doctor at 15 months and again at 18 months, but they wouldn't cross in her office and she sent us away.  They got worse and started crossing very consistently and we took her to a different doctor.  That doctor saw the crossing immediately and we started patching to try to strengthen her eyes.  After 4.5 months of patching with no results we went back to the original Dr. for a surgical consult because the other doctor had ruled out glasses as being a good solution in D's particular case.  For various reasons, we switch Drs. again.  The doctor she sees now will hopefully be her eye doctor through childhood.  He performed surgery for her strabismus (eye crossing) on Feb 18th.  Since then, she has been patching and wearing a set of glasses to help strengthen her eyes.  The glasses are for working her muscles, not for visual acuity.  On vision tests she took with a previous doctor her vision was quite good and she had no need for prescription lenses.  This doctor will evaluate how long she might need to wear the glasses at her appointment this Thursday. But she may need another surgery as well.  We'll see.

I hope this helps.  I don't know if you're noticing crossing, or something that would indicate a visual impairment or what.

 

KellyMichelle

DS wore them for a while when he was a year old.  They dilated his eyes and looked into them to see how they reflected light.  I thought he would really fight the glasses, but he didn't.  When he did start to fight them we got his eyes rechecked and they weren't needed anymore.

mommynow

She had her eyes checked at her 4 year appt and they told us that they thought her vision was off and referred us to a pediatric ophthalmologist.  She got the eye exam there and they confirmed that she did need glasses.  I really had no idea and of course felt like a terrible parent!  There were absolutely no signs of it though.  She's been wearing glasses since the beginning of January and is doing OK with it.  At first she was excited about it but the novelty has worn off.  She wears them at school everyday but wants to take them off when she gets home and now we're working on wearing them until snack time and then we'll work to dinner time and so on.

jnicks19

Both MH and his brother had ambylopia, diagnosed when they were young.  Since this seems to be genetic, we got both our DD's eyes checked initially when they were 14mos and 2.5.  They wanted to follow up on our oldests in 1 year.  So we did and it turned out that she seems to have it too, one eye was 20/20 and one was 20/25.  Which is actually great sight for this age, they typically see 20/30 when they're between 3-5ish.  Anyway because they are seeing the same they said we could do glasses or just recheck in 6mos.  We opted for the glasses in an attempt to preserve her vision and strengthen her bad eye. 

She got them at Thanksgiving and we just rechecked them and she's 20/20 in both eyes.  Hopefully, she'll eventually get out of glasses at some point this year.  They said we can be more lax about them now, give her more time off but she doesn't mind them much so I just leave them on her.  I figure the more they're on the better.

She definitely didn't want them and the first day or so was a struggle.  After that, she'd leave them on but if you ask her she'll tell ya she doesn't like them and doesn't want to wear them.  She still feels that way but fortunately never gives me a problem.