5yo with glasses for the first time

[LittleLadysMama]

Hello, looking for some advice / experience please.
My DD is 5 and we collected her first glasses today.
Her preschool eye check before she finished nursery picked something up and after referral to the opticians at out local hospital, she was give a prescription. I think +3 but would need to double check.
It wasn't apparent to us that she needed glasses as she never appeared to struggle and never complained but obviously the experts know best.
Anyway, neither me nor DH wear glasses and DD has complained today when wearing hers that she feels like she's walking down a hill... is this normal? I know there's an element of adjusting to something new, and she's had them off more than on so far 🤦‍♀️ also we were playing some card games and board games tonight and she kept lifting the glasses up to see what she was doing as she was complaining she couldn't see with them on... 🤷‍♀️
Maybe I've just seen too many online videos of kids putting glasses on and everything suddenly becoming better, just feels strange to me that she seems to be suggesting this far that things are harder/ worse...
Any other experiences would be appreciated from mums who've already gone through this 🙏
Thanks!

Yes a new prescription does indeed feel like you're walking on a slope for anyone. Going from nothing to a plus 3 is quite a a jump and will take some getting used to.

My 5yo DS also recently got glasses for reading. But they deliberately gave him a slightly lower strength to get used to before his next appointment when they increase it to what he needs.

I don't think you've mentioned when she's wearing them, but I've found for myself and my son that the assistants automatically tell us to wear them all the time, while the optician has admitted they are only needed for close up work.

My son has worn glasses since around that age. I do recall that they gave a lower strength prescription than the tests indicated though. A plus 3 is fairly strong so everything may well be blurred to begin with. Maybe worth speaking to optician.

That's really interesting and I wish I'd trusted my gut! At the hospital the opticians did say that they'd given her full strength straight away and that if she struggled with it, they could start lower and gradually increase. I considering stating that I (and I think DD) would prefer that, a gently does it approach, but I didn't and have thought about it ever since.
She's gone to school with them on today so will see how it goes, but I may call them this week to request they revert to that plan as if it was me, I know that would be my preferred approach.

My DS has a 4-something in one eye and a 5-something in the other eye. Got glasses at 5…started with a half prescription, then went to the full one. He never mentioned the hill thing, but I can relate—I’ve had a sensation when my own prescription was tweaked, and looking at my feet whilst walking made my feet look like they were not the correct distance from my body. It took a few days to adjust.

Stairs for me, when getting a new prescription, were the weirdest to navigate. Always feels strange for me, as very short-sighted, when the prescription was changed.

Thank you! We've been told she should wear them all the time, so I'll keep an eye on her and speak to her teacher soon too to see how she's doing with them in class.
It all feels a bit odd as she had no apparent issue reading, etc but if in the long term it helps her sight then 🤞
The optician did say most kids her age are longsighted naturally and was borderline over what's considered normal