Rayanne's 4 Month Appointment

Oreobaby · #1 October 18th, 2010, 07:16 PM

So there was good news and bad news.

She is healthy...gaining weight, she has doubled her birth weight.

The dr. looked at her ears, and hips and everything...including her eyes. And really, I shouldn't say it's bad news. It turns out, Rayanne has a lazy eye. The Dr. is referring us to a specialist, and they may just say that they are going to watch her for a little while, or she may have to wear and eye patch. He said the good thing is that he said they caught it super early, and it's not super bad, so if they do anything, they may just put a patch on her stong eye to try to strengthen her weaker eye. Has anyone had experience with lazy eyes??

::MummyToTwo:: · #2 October 18th, 2010, 11:25 PM

I had a lazy eye and had to wear a patch over one eye when I was 6..... it was traumatic to say the least! so glad they caught it early!

CandaceDianne · #3 October 19th, 2010, 05:12 AM

Did you happen to notice it and mention something? Or is it so subtle you didn't even notice? Just more curius than anything.
Glad the appointment went well!!

Oreobaby · #4 October 19th, 2010, 06:17 AM

We had sort of suspected that she had a lazy eye, but didn't know for sure. I never mentioned anything, the dr. was doing his check up of her eyes, and noticed that her eyes weren't quite focusing together. If you look at some of her pictures on FB I can now see that her left eye is kind of off in some of the pictures. I just hope that the patch will fix it, because of course, I take everything to the extreme when it comes to Rayanne.

I get worried about everything. LOL...I'm sure she will be fine.

CandaceDianne · #5 October 19th, 2010, 06:44 AM

Oh yea, I wouldn't worry about a lazy eye (of course, I know the mommy in me would freak out too ebcause that's what we do best!

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karenwalter · #6 October 19th, 2010, 08:24 AM

Glad they caught it early and it sounds like an easy fix. Hope she doesn't have to wear the patch too long. KUP on what the specialist says.

MommaLee · #7 October 19th, 2010, 12:17 PM

Glad they caught it early.

fromustobaby · #8 October 19th, 2010, 12:24 PM

thats great that they are catching it so early...and hooray for everything else being wonderful!! I cant believe that she is already 4 months!!!!!

~* Liss *~ · #9 October 19th, 2010, 01:08 PM

Happy they caught it early. Sounds like she's growing perfectly!!

Hmm... I wonder - you and I discussed this before. I will def mention at Nikolas' next appt too!