Baby’s eye still turning in at six months, should I be concerned?

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At a few days old the midwife reassured that baby’s apparent lazy eye was normal and just eye muscles developing.

At 6 months her right eye is still pointing inwards, even when she appears to be focusing on something. I am not particularly concerned that she can’t see as she reaches for things and spots me entering a room, even at a distance. However, I am concerned that her eye sight might need correcting.

Does anyone know at what age “lazy eye” should sort itself?

Newborns sometimes look cross eyed, but their eyes start tracking in unison after a few days.

True lazy eye (persisting beyond the newborn days) doesn't go away on its own.

You need to seek treatment for your baby.

It probably won’t. My daughter had a turned in eye and could still see and pick things up at that age. She was a +10 and needed glasses. My son needed them too but he didn’t have a turn. Health visitor referred mine to the local
eye ophthalmologists.

Contact your HV and they can refer your daughter for an ophthalmologist review. It’s usually quite a short referral time (where I am anyway).

I would move quite quickly. I’m sure you are worried but eyes and sight are developing and interventions can be very effective. My dd developed a squint in both eyes (alternating convergent) around a year, she had squint surgery as a toddler. After this she was a full time wearer of glasses +3.5 and full time patching until about age 10.

Her eyes are cosmetically perfect (straight) and her sight kept improving as she grew. She’s now a teen and her script is +1 and +0.25 she doesn’t quite have full 3d vision but that’s only apparent when she is tested (real life it is a non issue) she is pretty happy with that had we moved a bit quicker I wonder if 3d vision would have been improved. I would press for the eye hospital.

Thank you so much!

I feel really stupid for being so at ease after the midwife’s comments but she was only a few days old then.

I will call HV Monday and I’ll try to remember to update here in case anyone finds this thread on Google! I could only find things 12+ months when googling.

Great that you’re keeping tabs on this. I don’t know at what age they’ll start actively trying to fix it, but call HV and maybe ask for a referral to eye clinic or something? We didn’t notice till about age 3 that our son’s eye turned in a bit, he was great at fiddly close up toys etc, just didn’t occur to us. He had to wear eye patches for a while, which he got used to quickly (though he was not a fan the first few times!). He wore glasses ever since and looks gorgeous.

My daughter had an eye which went out, we were under the eye clinic for a while but they didn't do scuff anything and she grew out of it. I would ask for a referral but also don't worry about it as it's usually easily treated if anything does need to be done.

My dd had a squint i noticed when she was 18 months old. She ended up with glasses from being long sighted. Her left eye was also lazy (poorer sight) and she had patching treatment to improve that.

My daughter had a significant squint at 6 months and was referred by health visitor to ophthalmology at the hospital. She needed glasses to correct vision and the squint and has been wearing glasses (now contact lenses) ever since (now aged 24!). Get it looked at sooner rather than later x