Am i an idiot for worrying that DD has inherited my short-sightedness?

[AitchTwoOhOhSeven]

she's only one, and recently has started frowning a lot when looking at things for the first time.

now, of course she might just be cross, lord knows, but as someone who is really badly short-sighted and a total specky four eyes it does make me worry.

i'm sure i remember seeing someone say (could it have been twiglett?) that her son is being referred to someone, but i can't remember anything else.

do they do eye tests for babies? how can they? ooooh, i don't know anything any more...

Panicking both my kids are totally blind,. like me? Shampoo? What is that? The bottle that says SSSSSSHEWTMERMEMR?

ffs, we should go to bed, have you seen the time? and i still have the dishwasher to do.

funkimummy have just read what you wrote. i was talking to quootie about the dishwasher so ignore my last post.
i am kidding you on, you do know that don't you? just pulling your leg a wee bit, honest. meaning NO offence whatsoever, quite the opposite.
and yes, that's the shampoo bottle i'm talking about
night night, see you tomorrow. thanks for answering my posts, good to know i can ask for an eye test. ta.

True. Done my dishwasher, wetting myself about taking DD for ears pierced aged 9 months. Thought had asked everyone, but still paranoid and can't sleep!

oh well, you can always let them close up if you decide you don't like them. night night, sleep well, see you tomorrow probably. h x

hang on, have you taken her yet? if not, then maybe wait another while and see how you feel then. i got mine done when i was thirteen, which seemed fine to me. but if they're done, they're done, and they can close up easily.

mine done when | was 5 by an evil doctor!

She won't remember MMR

Morning(ish).
I know a baby who wore glasses under a year old, but for a specific medical problem, not plain short/long sightedness.(Very cute, with a rubber strap that went round his head)

BTW I got the pink nhs glasses, and thenpainted them with red nail varnish.

Aitch, an eye test can be done at any age, though obviously the older they are the better they co-operate!
I would think it unlikely that your dd is shortsighted at her age but am a great believer in Mums putting their minds at rest! You should be able to find an optometrist with an interest in children near you.

Baby with glasses how cute!

I woul ask your doctor or HV for a referral to a child opthamologist (you could just phone up the HV if you don't want to go to seer her - that's what I did) - ime the ones working directly for the NHS are better than the high street ones. Mine all saw one at an early years (mainly because of worries they may have inherited my various eye problems). The one we see is excellent. (They use pictures btw rather than letters when they are little). My dd is short sighted now but only developed when she was about 8 (same for me)

DD been wearing glasses since she was 2 she is severly long sighted and got an astigmatism in both eyes. As a result DS was tested at the hospital at about 9 months they just put drops in their eyes to enlarge their pupils then they can see in to the back of their eye ( or something like that)

DS was referred to an optometrist by the health visitor at my request when he was about 1. MY eyesight is fine, as is dh's. But my brother had an astigmatism, eye patch and glasses at a very young age, and has completely OK vision now. He inherited it from my father, who wears incredibly strong glasses in his 60's because there wasn't the eye care in his youth.
In the end, nothing wrong with ds's vision atm, but he will be called for another eye test in 18 months. Just to be sure. They showed him lots of heavy glass squares, some with a ball on the surface, some with a ball underneath, for example, and just watched whether he'd point at the ball/picture. Alsp looked in his eyes, got him to follow a pen with a gonk on the top to see whether he was focussing and so on.

Sorry - that should have been opthalmologist - get very confused with all the opths!

My dd developed it at the same age that I did (around 7) and I am very shortsighted. -9.5 in both eyes! She isn't as bad as I am, -3.5.

She has no problems with her glasses and looks stunning in them.

My DD (10yo) also wears glasses - since she was about 7, I think. Her scrip is -3.5/-3.75. She has just started wearing contact lenses occasionally for sport (judo, horse riding, hockey) but this is something which is a little controversial!

I'm shortsighted - only developed when I was 18. DS is fine - 13, but DD - 14.5 is shortsighted and has been since about the age of 10. She wears glasses sometimes but generally for the last 2 years has worn contact lenses!! She looks great in glasses, but for sport etc contacts are better.

DH is also shortsighted, we have been told that it is hereditary - so not surprised about DD, it just varies when it develops.

HTH. X

I knew someone whose two year old had glasses, but they thought it might actually correct his vision before he went to school, so it's worth looking into it soon. I remember being in a children's health clinic in Ireland years ago and seeing they had various ways they test very young children's eyesight. Can be done.

I've needed glasses since I was 10 or 11, DD from about 9. I always hated them and DD, now 11, wasn't looking foward to being a spotty teenager wearing glasses so I've got her contact lenses. She's very grown up and takes very good care with them. Some opthamologists won't hear of it, but the one I saw was very up to date and has given them to somone as young as 7 as the kid was destined for football stardom and really, really needed them for sports. So it's not all bad, like it was for us back in the 70s and 80s, being "doomed" to wear glasses forever.

Incidentally, he told me that new research from Sweden (then backed up by UK research), has shown that the more time kids wear their glasses/ contacts, the less their eyesight deteriorates. I was told by opthamologists until quite recently, that wearing glasses all the time "just made you dependend on them". Not true it seems. Not wearing them strains your eyes more and makes eyesight worse.

Rambling a bit there... BTW, DH bought me laser eye surgery at Moorfields, as my wedding present almost three years ago and it's the best thing I ever did. Terribly expensive unfortunately, but very much worth it if you can stretch to it.

Hunker - I had the blue ones too, from the age of 8 (oh and I hated them, but glasses for children these days are very cute).

Fwiw, aitch, ds1 started screwing up his eyes while looking at things (I noticed it particularly when he was watching TV) when he was about 18 months old and I was convinced he had inherited my short-sightedness. He had an eye test which involved looking at simple pictures (house, cat etc.) from a distance and then other tests like following lights with his eyes - oh and I remember a Buzz Lightyear pencil topper which she did that "move it closer and closer to your face to see when you go cross eyed" test with (that's the official optometrist term for that particular test, btw). She could find nothing at all wrong - and concluded that he was screwing up his eyes because he liked the effect He's 10 now and (touch wood) his eyesight is fine.

thanks all for for taking me seriously, i know that glasses aren't the worst thing in the world (i think mine are delicious and very much 'me' iykwim), but i'd rather dd inherited her father's perfect eyesight than mine.

am delighted (in a retro stylee) to hear that eye tests for infants rely so heavily on gonks - just when you think you'll never hear a word again, up it pops on MN.

and PMSL at the NHS glasses... be they blue, pink, brown or painted in Chanel Rouge Noir, they were always pure SHIT. they were happier specky four-eyed times... [short-sightedly wistful emoticon]

well I'm incrediably short sighted (worn glasses since I started school) and dp is very long sighted (worn glasses since he was very very young) so I'm hoping ds balances the two out

And you can make letters out on the shampoo bottle?

dp once exfoliated his hair (by accident). I PMSL

dd3 wears glasses, has had them since she was 18months old, but knew she needed then when she was just under a year old. She wouldnt be wearing them yet if i hadnt agreed for my kids to be guinea pigs for a new camera eye test. She is getting better with wearing her glasses but she has had an allergic reaction to ither the rubber bridge or the metal. so is o na break whilst the skin on her nose heals as its all sore and broken. Do you want to see a speccy pic of her? she is ratehr cute in them.

oh she is extremely lonmgsighted, her eyes glasses are a 7+8 i think. but thats not her perscription yet, as her eyes ont respond to the drops so its been hard work getting the right perscription. but she can definatly see better.

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